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    future gun making at home

    Tweed or not to Tweed that is the question

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    Wow................ Technology over takes me again
    "Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.

    308Win One chambering to rule them all.

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    Holy crap this looks like gun control has gone right out the window .

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    Yep - we have a 3d printer at work & that was pretty much the first thing that crossed my mind

    If you have the $$$ You can print in pretty much any metal - like the sound of 3d printed Titanium Ar ?

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    I've used rapid prototypers like this with resin and sintered aluminium.

    Both can hold some very tight tollerances as can be seen here.

    3D printing demo -- ball bearings! - YouTube

    If you can draw it you can print it.

    And the printers are becoming cheaper and faster.
    Last edited by P38; 16-08-2012 at 06:33 PM.

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    That is farkin COOL!
    "Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.

    308Win One chambering to rule them all.

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    Myself and friends have contemplated pitching in for a printer and manufacturing AR parts

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    When my home designed gun blows my face off - i can just print myself a new face! What will they think of next ha ha?
    Somebody will figgure out how to make a cheap copy of the 3d copier USING the said copier....then how do they make money. I'm off to buy stocks in that powdery crap these things run on

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    Thats the first job you do with your printer = print out all your spare parts!

    There are plenty of blogs etc about people printing their second more advanced printer on their first one

 

 

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