>3D Printed GunsWhat are the best filaments you guys are using for frames and gun parts? Is it still PLA + or are the different carbon/glass infused filaments better?What are you guys printing?
>>64742368I'm not printing guns. But if I was Hoffman has a good writeup on filaments on his site.
I always appreciate that 3d printed weapons look very cyberpunky. But they also look like something you could throw at a wall and it would just come apart like a sugar cookie
>>64742368PLA pro or glass fiber nylon. Actual manufacturers use GF-nylon. 3d printed parts are basically consumables due to how cheap and easy they are to print.Hoping that the filing requirement on $0 suppressors goes away because I don't want to do paperwork and a printed suppressor wrapped with duct tape that costs less than a dollar in materials is the obvious consumable suppressor to make. At that price point who cares if it fails from a single rapidfire magazine?
>>64742446>look like something you could throw at a wall and it would just come apart like a sugar cookieYou probably could cause significant damage by slamming a 3d printed part along its layer lines, but if made properly you would need to use deliberate effort. Considering that the part is probably less than $20 in material and half a day in print time, it can be replaced. If you dont abuse 3d printed parts they can be just as durable. For the US it is a hobby to make your own, because making things is fun.
>>64742491>making things is fun.True enough.Anybody got any more pics of different designs?
>>64742491I think the future is >Metal chambers, barrels, springs>plastic everything with metal reinforcement
I’ve only printed pla to surprising results. I’m mainly staying around mac clones but I’ve done 10/22’s as well. I’m only using a bambu mini until I can get more comfortable in cad. It’s one thing to roll filament and a totally other to actually get it drawn.
>>64742368/r/'ing a recommendation for a 2nd printer.Currently using an Ender 3 clone that works "fine" but Ive been using it for 2 years now and am ready for something much nicer.
>>64743818I’m in the bambu sphere. Previously I’d highly recommend them, but they recently pulled some fucky shit with their tos. I’d look into Voron or similar. The bambu is still excellent but it seems they have aspirations of going the Apple route. Fortunately bambu users went rabid on them but they didn’t back off completely, especially regarding lan/offline. At one point it seemed they were going to a “verified” print model but seems that’s been given up on.
>>64743838P1S worth it or is the X1C worth saving for?3d2a type prints, no engineering filaments.
>>64743866P1S should do everything you need it to. Hell you can even dress up an a1 to get you mostly there. Unless you’re running production I wouldn’t bother drooling over a grand and some change. Do your hw as I’m just a lowly bambu mini printer, but that’s what I’d do at least. >b-but Whats about x future filament?By the time we get to nanobot titanium liquid uber steel filament you’ll be in a spot to upgrade further assuming it’s something you absolutely need (not likely) and that the p1c for some reason cant run it. >bonus tipIf there’s an option to buy an ams bundle now, do it. You’ll save big $$$.
>>64743898thank you based anon have a flag in return
>>64743947Bless anon. Much prosperity for 1000 generation.
>>64742368What was the website for these guys? I finally got a PS1 and I was really interested in printing the shell for one of these. It uses a Glock, right?
>>64742368Nylon is the new hotness, but I just use cheap pla+ mostly sunlu or jayo/inslogic which is all supposed to come from the same factory. I went through four spools of elegoo though that I've subsequently read is subpar and blows up in guns, I can't remember which guns it's in.
>>64742446I haven't found that to be the case
>>64744307Is it out of beta yet? How are you liking it?
>>64743866>No engineering filamentsIn that case you could use a $50 thirdhand Ender 3 just fine. You should be using engineering filaments, though.
>>64744316Still open beta, mine, which isn't the one pictured was printed from an early leak and I think I overextruded a little, it works but the lock is stiff.
>>64744389What is an engineering filament to you?
3d printers are for marvel figurines and pedophilic anime minisAlthough a 25% glass filled pa6 nylon with the Defiance remixed lower that accepts SS, that would be a great use for one, would print super nice, and after some painted supports and brim ears, is stiff and geometry correct.
What's a printer to get to start printing? I doubt it can just buy a Bambu mini and start making liberators.Or can I?
>>64744444checked
>>64744444Why can't you? I got a mini for $200 and made a bunch of frames. If you can't fit it on the plate on the first try spin it 45 degrees a place it diagonally.
>>64744409ABS, nylons, polycarbonate, acrylic, acetal, PET, PBT, and basically everything else that isn't trash.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_plastic
>>64744417Isn't it funny that something that you'd think is only good for making dime store toys also makes guns? I have made replacement parts for light tools, drilling jigs, bespoke cases, precise bushings, but even though the stuff is about as good as cheap injection molded plastic parts it still seems like it just makes doodads and nonsense.
>30g>300fpsNerf waaaaaaaàr!
>>64744531>ABS>engineering filamentWild, but I won't be printing any of those because PLA+, PETG, PA12CF, and TPU do all I need them to do and I don't have any use case for exotics.
>>64744629Load that puppy up to 3000fps, I wanna see what it does.
>>64742446I like it more when they end up naturally looking like the dystopian techno future rather than function following form. In 30 years I wonder if we'll be looking back at the style as retrofuturistic like putting atomic age rocket fins on everything. Then again the style has sort of been around since the 80s, and it's a minor quibble, I'm all for more guns of any sort.
>>64742446>something you could throw at a wall and it would just come apart like a sugar cookieDepends on what you use, how it's designed, and how it hits. For this item, for example, I probably want to switch to something more impact resistant because there's a non zero chance the user (or his cat) would swipe it off a nightstand onto the floor and break it like this.
>>64744753PA (nylon) is an engineering plastic. And PETG is worse than worthless, it doesn't do anything that PLA+ can't do better except for marginally more heat resistance, but most applications that require heat resistance require more than the extra ~10C you can get from PETG.
>>64744529>anime tiddies in a police evidence photo
>>64742446>I always appreciate that 3d printed weapons look very cyberpunkyThey are cyberpunk through-and-through. I love that about them.
>>64745609>And PETG is worse than worthlessI would mostly agree, but there are a few narrow cases where it's better than pla in flexing. For printed magazine springs, snap catches and the like it does last longer. It took a lot of experience to find a fraction of the supposed advantage in resilience it was claimed to have by the non gun printing community though.
