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To: JohnPierce; All
I worked with Stereo-Lyth in the mid 90's, ya it is way cool and I don't want to be the turd in the punch bowl but...

Does anyone get Metallurgy, Forging, Heat Treating, Normalizing etc etc and Metal Certs? What are these magic printers gonna give me for a barrel or receiver and how am I gonna have any faith in it when it is esentially a printed casting in terms of porosity?

Freeper Engineering Geeks tell me where I am wrong here....Ditto That suspension arm on a race car or wing spar, I am not gonna trust it out of a printer..

27 posted on 08/06/2012 7:44:57 PM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: taildragger

Right now, the existing tech can turn out something on a par with or a bit better tan the Liberator .45 pistol (think I have the name right) that was airdropped behind Nazi lines.

In a few years a tough receiver will be possible. Barrels, I think, will be heat-treated steel for the foreseeable future, possibly machines out of car parts. Metal-lined ceramic barrels are a possibility.


37 posted on 08/06/2012 8:00:48 PM PDT by DBrow
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