Man Makes Guns with a 3D Printer, page 7

reply to post by Unity_99

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Hardly solved.

This technology eliminates small manufacturers, monopolizes large ones, and makes the companies that get the resources and supply them the power house.

Nothing new here. It's just a shift of economies. Hell even I'm getting involved. Since a few months ago I've been working on a gelatinous formula with someone and we might end up at NASA for it no less.

If you want something to look forward to, this sort of forces manufacturing jobs to go somewhere. Likelihood is they'll go back to farming. More food. Otherwise your best option is to find a niche, and append your skills to it. It's a brand new front with loads of opportunities.

I've had some work with these new tools. I can assure you the only thing that will change by them is whose making/doing what for who. It's sort of the 1870s-1890s all over again.

reply to post by anthbes

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yea like how they tried to make torrets? lol.

Nobody will buy that because it doesn't make sense and most people actually do have some sense, albeit very little.

reply to post by DeeKlassified

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It's been around for over a decade. Mostly in use only by those that can afford to drop $10,000 for the machine + $5000 for the material + more costs.

Ergo, only a few really good manufacturers and government agencies and schools use them.

I know NASA has been using it for a few years to digitize the old Saturn 5 documents. Basically due to lack of funding and time since they had popular support, everyone who worked on those projects died, so they have to sort of reverse engineer their own technology to use it again. They're manufacturing the parts, once scanned, by DMLS, to then be analyzed and tested so they can use the data in the new SLS Block I and II rocket systems that will take us to the Moon again, and Ceres and Mars in the near future.

For myself, we don't have access to a very sophisticated machine. It's not a metal printer. It's a plaster one. But it can do pretty amazing work. Here's something I made a few months ago: i.imgur.com...

Bare in mind that it's more brittle than your grandmother's bones.

reply to post by Shadow Herder

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This is extremely cool and my mind is blown and I don't understand..
could one of you whipper snappers please explain what a 3d printer is and how it works or link me to an informative source. When I hear 3d printer i think just a printer that prints 3d images on paper..but is this thing really printing actual objects argggh please someone explain?

Reply to post by Gorman91

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Thats pretty neat, what exactly is it?

is this thing inside somekind of special photo booth or is that just a rendered image? looks very professional.

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reply to post by HumanitiesLastHope

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You can't really print 3d on 2d space(paper), only the illusion of depth.
A 3d printer prints real 3d objects, cant pretend to tell you how it works.

reply to post by HumanitiesLastHope

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Here you go. This video will explain 3d printing better than I could.

reply to post by HumanitiesLastHope

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I saw this in the first thread that was posted on the monkey wrench 3d printer and thought wow, then it disappeared off youtube so here is the link again it's not made of plastic it can replicate anything and any material.

iI my opinion the white powder that is used in this printer is montomic gold, very expensive so normal househoulds would not be able to afford it so if you look up monotomic gold you will find them very very interesting reading it can replicate ANYTHING, and our governments have known this for decades but they won't tell us here is the link for the monkey wrench being replicated by the 3d printer www.youtube.com...

reply to post by Choice777

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Would be nice, but I highly doubt it..... Think the owners of the robots are just gonna start giving everything away free? Somehow I don't see that happening.

He did not make the whole gun from a 3d printer only the lower, for those who don't know what the lower is heres a picture.



All other components were from a manufactured firearm with a barrel and internals made of METAL.

Also multi color 3d printers produce fragile material, so even though a lower is created it's far from durable.
The website that talks about it's fragility is here.
i.materialise.com...

reply to post by Shadow Herder

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No Gun manufactures will not go bust because while it MAY be possible to print exhisting guns, it cannot envision nor think to create better or next generation guns and weapons. There is no creativity or future development capabilities with 3D printers, all they can do it print what already exists...

I hope I got my point across, we still need the dreamers to come up with new ideas and designs...

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