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phantom power

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18. I'm sure we could print most of the parts now, with the caveat...

Fri Nov 8, 2013, 04:40 PM

Nov 2013

that currently you can't print with any kind of metal or plastic, with any desired physical properties.

But you could print the parts, with the same shapes, in some choice of metals and plastics.

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Solid Concepts uses 3D printing to make an M1911 pistol [View all] phantom power Nov 2013 OP

Thats a very interesting exercise. aikoaiko Nov 2013 #1

I find it disturbing that with all the possible applications of 3-D printing Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #2

I get the impression it was to demonstrate fine tolerance + strength phantom power Nov 2013 #3

Maybe I'm lost or not getting the point: Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #5

A CNC mill removes metal from a larger starting piece. A 3D printer adds metal, point by point. phantom power Nov 2013 #6

NOW I get it...thanks! Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #7

They work in the opposite fashion. SolutionisSolidarity Nov 2013 #11

One of, if not the first Aerows Nov 2013 #29

The point is to show the futility of gun bans. MicaelS Nov 2013 #31

I guess I missed the part where guns were banned in this country... Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #53

Most people aren't. The media's just goddamned obsessed with that angle because OMG FUD. (nt) Posteritatis Nov 2013 #49

Good. Just more fuel for the return of sensible gun control. onehandle Nov 2013 #4

How do you figure? NickB79 Nov 2013 #8

There will quickly be hacks to get around the required electronic locks on the printers. GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #13

It means that the gov't is losing the ability to control. GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #10

Yes the efficiency and economy of scale of XRubicon Nov 2013 #34

You are betting against the advancement of technology. GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #37

You should buy a cow XRubicon Nov 2013 #40

And 40 years ago you needed a full studio NickB79 Nov 2013 #44

OK... XRubicon Nov 2013 #45

So you think technology has frozen, and won't advance. GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #46

Confiscate all civilian guns and the tools to make them. NOW. Bob Jones Nov 2013 #14

The "tools to make them" are the same tools we use to make everything else. phantom power Nov 2013 #16

At the very least license and register such tools. Bob Jones Nov 2013 #20

So, hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, vises, etc NickB79 Nov 2013 #24

Wait for it - Aerows Nov 2013 #27

Um LOL Aerows Nov 2013 #25

Post removed Post removed Nov 2013 #30

Yes, I'm sure the government will get right on restricting the use of lathes. Posteritatis Nov 2013 #51

Just who do you propose do the confiscating? Lizzie Poppet Nov 2013 #17

Give gun owners one year to turn them in, then send in in the police, National Guard, whatever Bob Jones Nov 2013 #19

And you assume the police, Nat. Guard, etc would follow those orders? NickB79 Nov 2013 #22

Hey, sounds simple enough NickB79 Nov 2013 #21

Correction. Needs 75% of states to ratify an Amendment. Otherwise, excellent post. N/T GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #38

You forgot to add this. Ranchemp. Nov 2013 #35

You're funny. nt rrneck Nov 2013 #36

This tech is not going to be abused whatsoever sakabatou Nov 2013 #9

I had no idea a printer could "print" steel. HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #12

Which gets bigger headlines? N/T GreenStormCloud Nov 2013 #39

Incredible. It's like a science fiction LittleBlue Nov 2013 #15

I'm sure we could print most of the parts now, with the caveat... phantom power Nov 2013 #18

Print a car.... Already happened Taitertots Nov 2013 #23

Already happened :) Aerows Nov 2013 #26

Making guns is not particularly difficult Taitertots Nov 2013 #28

Printing guns is great, but why don't they print a 3D printer? petronius Nov 2013 #32

That is a slippery slope. Once you have printers printing other printers... yawnmaster Nov 2013 #33

Call Stephen King!!!11!! Right F*cking Now!!!1!11 ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #41

i'd want one of those science fiction replicators to instantly make good food, booze, and drugs ;) dionysus Nov 2013 #42

Ah, there is no life after Forbidden Planet. "Smooth!" Eleanors38 Nov 2013 #43

That's one of the goals for a lot of people working on them Posteritatis Nov 2013 #50

every now and then technology out paces the law-the quest then becomes to make sure the new law dembotoz Nov 2013 #47

Using new tech to a build 102 year old design. ileus Nov 2013 #48

Watching Vice, they showed people in sheds making handguns out of scrap metal NoOneMan Nov 2013 #52