Print your own gun????
- posted
11 years ago
Print your own gun????
doubt there's any 3d printing capable of printing a barrel that will work
but the rest, sure..
-Lasse
Just saw one of those crime investigation TV shows about that; the pressure-limited parts might be good for one shot. "Perfect" for assassins etc.- use, then toss, untraceable if you wear gloves.
Total TV fiction IMO.
Mark L. Fergerson
Now that we have 3D printing, is someone developing 3D ERASING ?
Then you could have perfect destruction of evidence >:-} ...Jim Thompson
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you could probably print something that works for one shot, but it'll be 50/50 if it is the shooter or the shootee that gets hurt ;)
-Lasse
Just proves that JanTard knows nothing about 3D printing. It is quite capable of thousandth inch tolerance work. Quite enough to 'print' a gun barrel.
As far as making it work, one would have to press fit it into a ceramic tube (for stealth)
Each 'barrel' would only be good for a single shot as it would get galled to destruction on the first firing.
I have some pretty advanced ideas for guns, actually. ballistics has been one of my lifelong hobbies.
The science of ballistics, not so much actual gun technology.
I like watching the 'Punk-a-pults' fire. There are some pretty advanced designs going on for something that is just a hobby.
On a sunny day (Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:39:34 -0800 (PST)) it happened " snipped-for-privacy@fonz.dk" wrote in :
They already had a handle that lasted 7 shots... I could imagine a carbon nozzle heated to steel melting point absorbing steel wire.... Just a matter of time? Are not welds made that way 100%? When I was a kid (confession) I used the outside shaft of a double pot as barrel in an experiment.. It worked (and I am still around, never found the 'bullet' though...) So that is just a minor problem...
On a sunny day (Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:12:20 GMT) it happened Jan Panteltje wrote in :
barrel in an experiment..
It is in orbit, international space station had to change altitude to avoid it.
wire....
barrel in an experiment..
People have done extrusion-type rapid prototyping with steel. The problem is horrible warping due to the residual stress. 3D printing cores for investment casting is one approach that works.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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OK. Done. I've printed my gun.
Now, the ammunition...
Sylvia.
On a sunny day (Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:53:50 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else wrote in :
I have heard fertilizer and mtor oil. Potato guns use spray cans:
All plastic!
Then your fingers.
you shouldn't use pvc for pressurised gasses
-Lasse
Ob boy! I can just imagine what *you'd* come up with. I bet it'd look like this:
Let us know how the test phase goes, m'kay?
Let's see you print some ammo for it...
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