This is a 1911 Ford. Now, I'd love to print one out, but it sure couldn't be my only car. But the pistol? I'd take it in a heartbeat. That's how good John Moses Browning really was.
Posted on 10/26/2014 8:32:55 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
I don’t particularly like it, but I love the concept. Give the system and the design a year or two to mature, allow anyone who passes that company’s standards for purchase to pay for the materials and for the right to hit “print”, manufacturing their own 1911 - no serial number, no FFL - and it will be a great thing for America.
What’s an anti-freedom socialist like Schumer going to do - ban technology too?
may send shivers down the spines of law enforcement agencies tyrannical jackbooted thugs around the world. There fixed it.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I kinda like it.....the price is what is really ugly. I assume this technology will eventually be a little cheaper!!
What concerns the Feds is the thought of citizens buyig these machines and making guns without serial numbers in their garages. It is a tad cheaper than the machinery one would need without a “printer” but not within range of a McDonald’s line worker. Yet.
The gummint is not worried about criminals and terrorists making guns with these things. The gummint is worried about you and me making hard-to-trace guns for ourselves with these things. Expect some sort of required Licensing of 3D printers to be on the legislative and regulatory agendas soon so they can keep track of the owners of the machines, at least. A gun Confiscation would also come get all the 3D printers.
Easy, they’ll then simply use 3D printers to make unlicensed 3D printers! :-)
They spread like disease.
“Which goes to show how little you know about this technology.”
I know enough not to put important parts of my body next to an untested device being subjected to 50,000 PSI pressure. I’ll leave that to big mouthed dumbass know it alls.
“Although there had been a number of interesting plastic firearms 3D printed up until that time, this metal firearm was the first capable of shooting several rounds of ammunition flawlessly. In fact the original 3D printed 1911 has since fired 5,000 shots without a problem, prior to it being retired.”
would require a couple of more Bureaus and thousands more agents and bureaucrats.
Take that!! .... anti-freedom Nazis!
So long .... gun control freaks .... may you never rise again!
When DDD cratered last week, due presumably to being unable to satisfy demand for their products, that sounded to me like a good problem to have and reason to dip a toe back in, which I did.
“In fact the original 3D printed 1911 has since fired 5,000 shots without a problem, prior to it being retired.”
I have no problem with the new technology, I’m just not looking to be the first guinea pig. In a few years I’m sure it will much cheaper and more reliable, unless they ban it.
I share your view - I hadn't heard that they had put 5000 rds. through a 3-D printed firearm until I read the article. The possibilities seem endless now...
I kinda like it. There's no accounting for taste. Especially mine.
This is a 1911 Ford. Now, I'd love to print one out, but it sure couldn't be my only car. But the pistol? I'd take it in a heartbeat. That's how good John Moses Browning really was.
Black powder, for example is simply a mixture of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal. The danger of making it has always been in the mixing and production of the powder grains. With a 3D printer using three reservoirs, much like a color printer, black powder grains could be printed and dried very safely. Each grain, in the size and shape desired, would be individually printed. While such a process would take time, producing only a few ounces of gunpowder a day for a hobby style printer, it makes high quality gunpowder easily and safely available to anyone who can obtain the raw materials.
Similarly, there are commonly available materials to make binary explosives.
Aww... Aren’t you just precious in your ignorance.
You do know they printed a rocket motor using this technology and it worked just fine? Or that there are already hundred of 3D printed parts in jet engine motors, eletrical generators, etc... And that the tech is ballooning like nothing we’ve ever seen beofre?
No?
Then maybe you should just keep your fingers off the keyboard for a while and learn something...
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http://t.space.com/all/22568-3d-printed-rocket-engine-test-video#1
http://www.ge.com/stories/advanced-manufacturing
http://www.pddnet.com/articles/2010/02/you’re-wrong-5-common-misconceptions-about-dmls
Further, chamber pressure for SAAMI spec 10mm aren’t anywhere near 50kpsi. SAAMI spec is 37.5kpsi for the 10mm auto for max loads.
Makes you wrong.... Twice...
Will you go for the trifecta?
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