https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaMxcHl8ewhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metal-base/the-metal-10-affordable-lpbf-metal-3d-printerThis shit looks insane. Almost $10k is too much for me, seems more suitable for business use, but in 5-10 years it may be a different story.
when the chinks clone it without safety and filtration
Chinese kids are already 3D printing metal rocket motors.
>>2982024To be fair you can bend a chineseium girder with your bare hands.
>>2981998That surface finish looks like shit
>>2981998>3d printed gearsno thanks
>>2984426good thing that for your typical machine shop, surface finish doesn't matter
i'm still waiting for desktop mills to become good-er
>>2982024Chinese kids print complex rocket engine nozzles, while Western governments are trying to ban 3D printers because they're so afraid of "ghost guns".The "Chinese Century" is no longer a meme
>>2982646At least they're making girders
>>2981998I would 10-15 years, provided that the world doesn't collapse and the 3D printing industry remains unmolested
>>2984535newton says no
>>2984620need to shoot more politicians, shoot them until they understand how guns work
>>2981998Post regular 3d printer.ABS with the occasional embedded rod or bracket is good for 90% of applications. I only heard talk of metal printers from people who aren't using what we have now and want an excuse to not learn.
>>2984426you know when you make raw parts the surface usually looks shitty until you polish or paint them right?
>>2981998learn to weld
>>2984640>shoot them until they understand the point of gunsFTFY
>>2981998Mommy! Daddy bought me a 3d printer for Christmas!!!!! Cough cough cough “inconel dust being coughed up”
>>2981998The Epstein class is already trying to take away the plastic printing we already have
>>2984646I remember you, post 3d printer post snap-on tools etc everytime I posted Then I posted like $12k in printers and tools and you never brought it up again and act like I’m the one who fucked up / was lying And accuse me of bragging everytime I point you you’re a liar
Can't wait for some fucking faggot youtuber to have 30 minutes rants on videos on how 3d printing is the best thing ever happened to tecnology and blah blah blah ofc sponsored by PCBway, I hope metal 3d printing never gets in the west those fucking people are gonna be so much more annoying just buy a milling machine and a lathe
>>2982646>To be fair you can bend a chineseium girder with your bare hands.
a 60W diode laser can melt steel together?
>>2984620>t. chinese propagandistUnless you guys figure out how to 3D print babies it's not gonna help you much.
There are lots of models that benefit from SLS even if they're still some kind of plastic. Metal would be great but the SLS process enables far more than that.
>>2988565Anon here, I live in America, I take no joy in our absolute downfall. I wish the Epstein class would just leave our printers alone, but they can't let the non-chosen have home production capabilities.And tbf, our nativeborn fertility rate isn't good either
>>2984620The ban is mostly in blue states because China pays them off to do it, plastic is cheap in the US and is a threat to China.
>>2988614Interesting theory, I haven't seen any proof of that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
>>2981998shortly before it gets banned because you can manufacture knives, gun parts or 'IP protected' manufacturer's spare parts
They can try blocking and banning homebased metal 3d printers, but we can just use ceramic nozzles and current 3d printer to open source our ownThey can try banning the firmware but it's all been reup'd all over the net, and I men people write their own encryption and DGAs now with LLMs so I mean they can fucking try bro but lolI mean Naval Intelligence wrote Tor, that's on them dudelike a mole hunt dudeWhich used to be really fun arcade game they should bring that one back lol
>>2988649>>2988652Guys you know you can already make guns and they're already banning the plastic printers right?
>>2988548Yes. In SLS the metal powder is heated until just below the melting point and then the laser just pushes it over the edge to fuse the material. The laser isn't heating from room temperature.
>>2988628China is using ab540 to teach it's students over people who actually live in California. Most of the community college bachelor's degrees are ran by chinks, and a huge fraud case just came up diploma mills there that has been used to scam millions out of the federal system for Pell Grants with fake students. Texas has a ton of cheap oil and so does California, but California is doing everything to destroy all the industries to keep prices profitable or at least less expensive so China can destabilize the economy since they are a major port. The by product methane is used for creating plastics and is so cheap it's almost free because it cost money to get rid of, this is a huge problem for China.
>>2981998saw this today.>https://www.scraplabs3d.com/product
>>2981998There's been a decade old effort from the reprap people to make electron beam melting a reality.It's going nowhere.This is arguably lower tech (no need for a vacuum chamber) but it's too early still.People have to figure out how to do cheap nylon SLS first and when that's done perhaps metal is an option.
>>2988565>muh birthrateYoull go from 1 billion to 700 million chinks and NOBODY will notice because ROBOTS will take care of old people.......
I am less interested in 3d printing so much as having home metal foundries
>>2981998Does this still need a 5k kiln. Doesnt matter how cheap the printer is if you still need 10k in accessories.
>>2988784I don't get why the US is at the forefront of this push against 3D printing, isn't it trivial to buy actual guns over there anyway? You'd think that the euro jews would be the ones more interested in stopping people from making plastic guns
>>2988565its almost as if fertility isnt important
>>2987477That wasn't me.Post employment.
>>2988565Well,...
>>2990411China is actually way more fucked than we are because they don't have enough women.
>>2990310It is a boogieman. The media isn't interested in educating you or informing you or even giving you the correct information about a subject so you can make your own decision. They want eyeballs so they can sell ads. That is it. What are your chances of being killed by a 'ghost gun'? Next to nothing. Hell, the fucking name alone was created to scare you. There were about 44k total deaths from guns in the USA in 2024. 62% of those were *suicides*. 35% were murders. The rest were law enforcement, accidents, or 'other' (someone from Florida probably choked on a gun or something).About 15k people were murdered by guns in 2024. Over 600k died from heart disease. Another 600k died from cancer. Fuck dude, you are twice as likely to die in a car accident than you are to be killed by a gun and car accidents aren't even in the top 10 causes of death in the USA. Suicide is though. So, if 3D printed guns become common, maybe the most like person to kill you with one will be yourself.
