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    3D Gun Builder

    Anybody looked at 3D Gun Builder? https://3dgunbuilder.com/guides/

    Done any of their projects?
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    Maybe a moderator could move this on into the 3D related forum.
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    Apparently, from the overwhelming lack of response, there is no interest in this at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doughty View Post
    Apparently, from the overwhelming lack of response, there is no interest in this at all.
    I have a little-used 3d printer, but absolutely no interest in having a gun blow up in my face. Maybe when I can afford one of the printers that actually prints in metal...

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    Do you know of some instances (or even an instance) where a 3D printed gun blew up in someone's face?
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    I know of actual instances of both plastic and metal guns blowing up.

    Google "gun kaboom", lots of examples.

    Might google, "3d printed gun fail", has results too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6fKTWoIiT8

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    jmorris, thanks for the links. If it's not too personal of a question, have you done any gun related 3D printing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doughty View Post
    jmorris, thanks for the links. If it's not too personal of a question, have you done any gun related 3D printing?
    I doubt you will get many folks responding to questions of 3d printing firearms due to the environment and oversight of our personal information. I do not want to say more as this is not the forum for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doughty View Post
    jmorris, thanks for the links. If it's not too personal of a question, have you done any gun related 3D printing?
    I have but not things that require much strength because the method I have available isn't much better than that guys print.

    It's great and will only get better, just not quite there yet. Like electric cars.

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    If cost is not an issue the technology is here. Printing aircraft turbine blades is a reality.

    https://www.additivemanufacturing.me...-parts-show-35

    https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4494/6/1/16

    https://www.xometry.com/resources/3d...rospace-parts/
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    Yes, I remember 3d wax printers of the early 1990's ~ $250,000. Not as useful as my $120 anet 8.

    Difference in 30 years of innovation. If someone has that quality of a machine, they would be here showing us things not asking about them.

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