3D Printed Metal 1911

[TAB]

m 58  there is a huge diffrence between a home/hobby 3d printer that can handle some lower melting point plastic and one that can handle sintermetal.   google it.   also have you ever been around any 3d printing?    at best it stinks, for some of the resins its deadly.

[Timothy]

TAB,

Was your daddy the IBM exec that said "No one will ever need a personal computer in the home!"?

 

I've seen these small printers in action in the last few years.  Fast prototyping plastic types were about 5-10 grand a few years ago, now there 1/5 that cost in some cases.  Something that runs 100K today will be affordable in the next decade for serious designers to do things at home.  Unless, they're outlawed by some pol with an agenda...

[MikeBjerum]

m 58  there is a huge diffrence between a home/hobby 3d printer that can handle some lower melting point plastic and one that can handle sintermetal.   google it.   also have you ever been around any 3d printing?    at best it stinks, for some of the resins its deadly.

TAB has all the qualifications of a career politician!

Show me a point that he makes above that has not been addressed already.  Including his asking me if I have ever been around it.

As I started reading this I remembered that I must not debate with TAB.  TT, where are you?  I need to to venture north, I'll even meet you at the Blue Star for a heart attack on a plate.  I'll buy if you promise to hit me upside the head with that 2x4 you use to remind me not to debate with TAB.

[TAB]

M58  what you are not getting is the plastic models you see for home use are nothing like what was used here.  They take plastic, melt it and deposit.   the systems used here have a bed of media( plastic, metal, resin even plaster ) a substance/ light( laser light inculded)  is used to harden the surface,  a tray the part sits on is lowered and the media is refreshed And repeat.   its not just let it run then build a gun either.  There has to be a suport structure added to the .stl which has to be removed later.  My friends in the indsutry use thier edm machines to do it as the parts don't machine well.  Think of it as sand stone, you can split the layers pretty easy if you are not careful.   it also has some strange surface property( simlar to how mim parts) which is also why they tend to use edm vs conventional machining.    then there are the power requirements,  which by the NEC  no home in the us can have.

[Solus]

M58  what you are not getting is the plastic models you see for home use are nothing like what was used here.  They take plastic, melt it and deposit.   the systems used here have a bed of media( plastic, metal, resin even plaster ) a substance/ light( laser light inculded)  is used to harden the surface,  a tray the part sits on is lowered and the media is refreshed And repeat.   its not just let it run then build a gun either.  There has to be a suport structure added to the .stl which has to be removed later.  My friends in the indsutry use thier edm machines to do it as the parts don't machine well.  Think of it as sand stone, you can split the layers pretty easy if you are not careful.   it also has some strange surface property( simlar to how mim parts) which is also why they tend to use edm vs conventional machining.    then there are the power requirements,  which by the NEC  no home in the us can have.

What is amazing to me in all of this is that there is no way in the Universe to every, for eternity, improve on this process.

Who would have believed it.

[Sponsor]

[1911 Junkie]

What is amazing to me in all of this is that there is no way in the Universe to every, for eternity, improve on this process.

Who would have believed it.

Just like the horse and buggy, that's as good as it gets. No need to improve on transportation after that.

[kmitch200]

Just like the horse and buggy, that's as good as it gets. No need to improve on transportation after that.

I agree. This whole car and computer thing is just a passing fad...it'll never sell. 

[tombogan03884]

If a railroad train exceeds 60 mph all the oxygen would be sucked out and the passengers will all die.
Scientists in the 1840's swore to it.
They even had the math to prove it.

[kmitch200]

A lot of DC Beltway workers take trains....there may be something to this. 

[Frosty]

I see AG Holder is wanting to put laws in place regarding 3D printers. That SOB should shrivel up and blow away. He has no room to talk after Fast & Furious and the Grenade running along with every other law breaking thing he has done & plans to do. Pathetic.