Texan selling 3D printed gun plans

[people]

I have a texas shaped waffle iron. Ive never seen one shaped like any other state. Ive seen texas edition chevy trucks but never any from another state!

Every waffle iron I have ever seen is in the shape of Wyoming but never one for texas.

Heck even eggo waffles are shaped like Wyoming.

As to the trucks you need to get out more.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Every waffle iron I have ever seen is in the shape of Wyoming but never one for texas.

Heck even eggo waffles are shaped like Wyoming.

As to the trucks you need to get out more.

You cant get out more than me. How sought after are those iowa edition chevys? How about the missouri edition?

 

[chop house]

My father-in-law sent off $3,700,000.00 dollars worth of machines as scrap because of NC tech

In today's world with wages and perfection that old iron is totally obsolete

i was in a usn plant in east tn that we converted from 100% machine work to electronic assy late 1980's. The HUGE shop floor was stuffed with rows of manuals that mostly sat idle, replaced even 30 years ago with a few nc centers. When the facility was finally closed, the gov't and operating contractor didn't even hold an employee surplus auction, except for the desks and chairs kinda stuff.
closing was in 1998 and the word was the machines might go somewhere in latin or south america... between enegy and labor costs they were economically useless in the states... even in the south. toolling was thrown in barrels for scrap.

this was 20 years ago. 50 years ago there were 100 guys in the tool room alone..

 

[Tommie]

3D printing is in its infancy, the printers will continue to get cheaper and the printed objects will continue to improve in quality.
Brings to mind my first engineering job in the mid 80's. There were seven of us in our group all sitting around in our Dilbert cubicles and the only computer in the room was a 386 in the corner. The only thing any of us used it for was to type our weekly reports. That's the present state of 3D printing, it's the 386 in the corner.

We were doing some pretty cool CAD stuff in the 80’s. On Macs, of course...

 

[alinwa]

i was in a usn plant in east tn that we converted from 100% machine work to electronic assy late 1980's. The HUGE shop floor was stuffed with rows of manuals that mostly sat idle, replaced even 30 years ago with a few nc centers. When the facility was finally closed, the gov't and operating contractor didn't even hold an employee surplus auction, except for the desks and chairs kinda stuff.
closing was in 1998 and the word was the machines might go somewhere in latin or south america... between enegy and labor costs they were economically useless in the states... even in the south. toolling was thrown in barrels for scrap.

this was 20 years ago. 50 years ago there were 100 guys in the tool room alone..

Too true.

Father-in-law started in Detroit, moved his operation to the UP because he was independent enough to do so.

They went from Kings Of Industry to survival mode in just a few years.

And only 15yrs ago a friend of mine bought a shop out here in the left....... same thing. It set next to a railroad line and had a lathe big enough that they made the masts for the ship on the movie 'Master And Commander, The Far Side Of The Ocean'. A large well equipped shop by any measure. He tried give the stuff away.......

In the end he kept some small chipmakers for himself for hobby work but sent the rest of the scrapyard, happy to have gantry's and railcars at his disposal so's he didn't have to PAY to get rid of machines.

 

[jbhotrod]

Theres 3D printers capable of rifling barrels??

With quality and precision equal to/greater than CNC cut riflers??

IMO barrel making is such a unique process, you'd have to specifically build your 3D printer around that job, no? I don't see any scenario 3D printed barrels will overcome CNC cut rifled barrels for our purposes... Who knows tho, it looks like ECM rifled barrels are gaining a little popularity.. ala Ritter & Stark, and IIRC S&W?

 

[people]

You cant get out more than me. How sought after are those iowa edition chevys? How about the missouri edition?

The same as every other edition they put out. Nothing special about any of them. What is in a name...

 

[chop house]

moved his operation to the UP

no kiddin'? i spent 4 years up there one month. oh, then there was that summer... i think it was july 18th.

actually i did spend 4 1/2 there and have both the degrees and the scars to prove it.

 

[alinwa]

no kiddin'? i spent 4 years up there one month. oh, then there was that summer... i think it was july 18th.

actually i did spend 4 1/2 there and have both the degrees and the scars to prove it.

You're a Tech Tute?

 

[TRA]

IMO barrel making is such a unique process, you'd have to specifically build your 3D printer around that job, no? I don't see any scenario 3D printed barrels will overcome CNC cut rifled barrels for our purposes... Who knows tho, it looks like ECM rifled barrels are gaining a little popularity.. ala Ritter & Stark, and IIRC S&W?

Doubtful any serious barrel taking place with EDM or Print and upsetting the industry. The system we have today is sufficient and it's profitable. IIRC it was Daniels who built a hammer forging Jobobber that could make AR barrels, rifling and chambered all in the same process. A process only goes HI Tek when it needs to. The man with the fastest gun barrel wins. The fastest to ship and the cheapest to build. at a price the taxpayers will pay.
For the most part all this hi tech talk will get buried under all the junk these fly by nighters, who think they will set the world on fire by printing over priced so-so quality gadgetry all the Tacticools are ODing on.

If you can put up with Hass, They have a very well stocked repo division. Hundreds of Haas machines who financed them to make bike parts, gun parts, and Tacticool Parts. Now decked out with attachments and available at very very reasonable prices and rates.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Doubtful any serious barrel taking place with EDM or Print and upsetting the industry. The system we have today is sufficient and it's profitable. IIRC it was Daniels who built a hammer forging Jobobber That could make AR barrels rifling and chambered all in the same process. A process only goes HI Tek when it needs to. The man with the fastest gun barrel wins. The fastest to ship and the cheapest to build. at a price the taxpayers.
For the most part all this hi tech talk will get buried under all the junk these fly by night, who think they will set the world on fire by printing over priced so-so quality gadgetry all the Tacticools are ODing on.

If you can put up with Hass has avery well stocked repo division. Hundreds of Haas machines who financed thru to make bick parts, gun parts, and Tacticool Partes. Now becker out with attachments and very very reasonable prices and rates.

that's true- no telling how many "gunsmiths" came from the scare post 2008. every one of them had a shop full of cnc equipment. a few knew how to use it and survived, but most didn't. its hard to imagine chambering your first barrel on a cnc machine.

 

[TRA]

that's true- no telling how many "gunsmiths" came from the scare post 2008. every one of them had a shop full of cnc equipment. a few knew how to use it and survived, but most didn't. its hard to imagine chambering your first barrel on a cnc machine.

I totally agree. Imagine that. As long as there is the internet, the Irish Travelers , have created a whole new image/facade... of themselves.