Texas company makes metal gun with 3-D printer

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/i...html?hpt=hp_t2

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

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!!

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

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

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

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

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...

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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaX...e_gdata_player

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

Very cool

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.