Posted on 12/28/2012 10:51:03 AM PST by marktwain
3-D printer ping
Cody: The fastest object printer in the West!
This is a technology still in its infancy.
The entire world will be changed by this tech. Today it is crude 3-D printing. Soon it will be an order of magnitude more advanced and will become a desktop assembler.
Small assemblers in the home will create tools, food, utensils, electronic devices, clothing, shoes..etc
Large assemblers will create cars, planes, bicycles..etc
Enormous mobile assemblers will create houses.
Biological assemblers will create hearts, kidneys, hands, feet, fingers, skin...etc
It’s coming... it will change the world.
Its advance is exponential..NOT linear.
from what i’ve seen, the materials don’t look like they’d be able to handle the pressures created by firing a cartridge. might be a one shot zip-gun at best.
There is a company in Sweden doing 3D printing with titanium. I’d consider investing in the firm, but no nothing about the downside of investing in foreign stocks.
That level of technology already exists but is not available at the price of the "hobby" printers due to the costs associated with the higher power lasers. Professional grade printers also have the ability to print larger parts because they have a larger scanable volume.
Regards,
GtG
PS The government answer to the printable gun will be to remove ammunition from the civilian market. Casting lead bullets is no problem. Making cartridge cases without a deep draw press, not so easy. Making smokeless powder and primers (or even percussion caps), big problem. Go back to flintlocks, I don't think so...BLOAT
3-D printing is just a fancy way of making plastic objects using computer-controlled methods.
For making parts of guns, it might be possible to make the plastic parts this way. However, parts such as the chamber and barrel better be out of metal and those parts can be made in a small, traditional machine shop. A lathe and a milling machine would do all that is necessary except perhaps the rifling, but the latter was accomplished long ago with simple hand tools.
A cross-bow is rather easy to make with ordinary hand tools.
In summary, all the talk of 3-D printing does not really add much to the story of guns. That might change if someone made a 3-D printer for metal objects, but then you are near to a computer-operated milling machine.
3-D printing is just a fancy way of making plastic objects using computer-controlled methods.
For making parts of guns, it might be possible to make the plastic parts this way. However, parts such as the chamber and barrel better be out of metal and those parts can be made in a small, traditional machine shop. A lathe and a milling machine would do all that is necessary except perhaps the rifling, but the latter was accomplished long ago with simple hand tools.
A cross-bow is rather easy to make with ordinary hand tools.
In summary, all the talk of 3-D printing does not really add much to the story of guns. That might change if someone made a 3-D printer for metal objects, but then you are near to a computer-operated milling machine.
I’m working on it...
The only thing that stops more Americans from building guns is the law -- those capable are mostly law-abiding and those who are criminal mostly aren't capable, or interested as things are now.
It should be added that, if the libs insist on turning gun enthusiasts into criminals, a lot more guns will surely be made illegally, including full-automatics.
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Done.
thanx!
And so goes more of our manufacturing base.
Looks like they’ve invented the ‘Replicator’ from Star Trek. I wonder if in a few evolutions if we don’t start losing the use of our hands, with the exception of typing, although the youth pretty much only uses thumbs anyway for texting and gaming.. :-(
Will there be a way to create new butts for old guys so their pants don’t fall down all the time? ;-)
Yes, the genie is out of the bottle. The ability of small groups and individuals to wield greater force than ever before will change the world. It will probably mean the death of the large nation state, as we see small bands of people defeating, or at least undermining, the former world powers such as the Soviet Union and the US. We could see old forms of government return, such as the nation state.
We may be in for chaotic times. This was predicted to a certain extent in the book, The Sovereign Individual by Davidson and Rees-Mogg.
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