3-D Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing
How long before we get a custom pistol made with this technology with a steel barrel glued in it with other high wear areas? Only G.E. knows.Maybe they are anti gun.
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How this Technology will Disrupt the High-Volume Casting Industry
Binder Jet is one emerging additive technology that can have a tremendous impact on traditional supply chains and is an efficient method for producing innovative components quickly and at scale.
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3D printing of actual gun parts with metal has been available for years and years now. Laser sintering even longer. Most gun parts are best made with traditional machining but additive manufacturing techniques certainly do allow folks without machining skills to make parts and assemble them.
With recent rulings that sharing 3d gun parts info is ok, the field is wide open.
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The only thing I would add to Mr. P’s comment -
The steel components of a firearm act as a pressure vessel.
That is a whole different animal, than 3D printing something to match a drawing.
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Well they have polymer receivers now with steel inserts and if I was taking an educated guess this new kind of 3-D printing layers down some king of compound with better tensile strength with stresses is going to a stronger unit to make it cheaper and better than Plastic polymers and be on par possiblly with machined steel
GE Corporation is Ant-gun and the powers to be do not want their tech set up to wind up in wrong hands making weapons on a mass scale with little work and abilities to make precise firing ghost guns in a matter of hours. You can bet on it.
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The only thing I would add to Mr. P’s comment -
The steel components of a firearm act as a pressure vessel.
That is a whole different animal, than 3D printing something to match a drawing.
I you print the parts (or sinter) in stainless, you can send the key components out for heat treatment. Printing a bbl though seems to me like it might result in a fairly inaccurate gun, unless there is some post processing beyond heat treatment done.
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