Texas company makes metal gun with 3-D printer

[revor]

Technology is amazing! Just think what Colt or Browning would have dreamed up if they had one of these?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/08/tech/innovation/3d-printed-metal-gun/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ZYKMBDm4M&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ZYKMBDm4M&feature=player_embedded)

[speedysst]

The first thing I thought of was while the printer used for this 1911 is unaffordable to most people, the same is not true for Mexican Cartels or organized crime. Very cool technology though!!

[jerrymrc]

And now you have a title that people can search so after the 10th time of people going "Hey Looky Here" ......[fail]

[Circuits]

Yep, very neat. Basic machine is a quarter mil, while bigger and faster models go up quickly in price from there.

[ben4372]

This is a fantastic time we live in. First the new Corvette now this.

[DFBrews]

That is friken cool First handheld test had issues going into battery pretty decent delay

[Singlestack]

Sounds like they were able to print stainless steel parts with that printer? If so, then useful. I don't know enough about metallurgy and alloys to know if gun-durable metals can be printed. If the printed parts are glorified pot metal, then this isn't the ticket...

[Gman]

If you can build components of tool quality steel, this concept is extremely cool. Imagine having something like it on the space station. "We need a specialty tool to repair the fleugenheimer valve." "Yeah, we're sending you the print job now."

[68Charger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaXX2OoOs4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Yes, it can make tool quality steel... Or stainless, or bronze

Very cool

[buckshotbarlow]

bro-in-law has a TI 3d at his shop. Ran the company a kewl 1mill. It's a dust printer, 8x11 plate. So basically it spray's a TI dust, then it binds somehow to form a solid shape of what they need to grow. Then, if it's a part that requires +-.0001, they machine it down. I'm gonna go try and check it out, problem is, it's "special access" only.