Message from @fully-autismatic
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wanhao di3 is my go to rec
tevo tarantula is good
qidi tech one is probably my next move
do i have to mod it
you don't _have_ to, but you can mod a wanhao di3 to outperform a lulzbot easy
i mean mod it as in it wont burn my house down
di3 is pretty good there now, the first version had hot bed connectors not rated for the current but they fixed that
i have yet to replace the electronics in mine, gonna have to to replace the hotend with the chimera but that's gonna wait until after the move and probably after i get a third printer
these alone and you have a pritner that shits on the official prusa i3
do u think its good enough to print AR15 lowers?
FDM is not suitable for firearm parts
you want a milling machine
metal infused ABS should work
that'd actually be even worse than PLA
have u seen the ar15 plastic lowers they make?
layer adhesion is a big problem in ABS on open frame printers
i have seen them, FDM still isn't suitable since you basically just have a bunch of flat sheets partway melted together in a stack
and not one solid block of an object
it can be shaken and shocked apart
ABS has some thermal properties that make it kinda weird to work with
i cant remember what they guy used
if it was 3d printed, whatever he used is inferior to a milled-out block
oh defo
you want a milling machine if you're doing gunsmithing, i wouldn't trust a 3d printed lr as far as i could throw it
if ur curious this is the guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRN1C8t6n0&t=6s
he shot it supressed 60 rounds so it had some back boen to it but i agree
purely because possibility of the repeated shocks cracking it apart along the layers
yeah :/
i would love to make gun parts though, like stock parts or braces
in ABS especially it's easy to have some layers that are just weakly bonded, especially if you're fairly new to 3d printing or to 3d printing ABS
since it shrinks a lot as it cools and if your shit isn't configured juuust right it doesn't fully adhere
and can even curl up into a fkn ball on you mid print
would you trust ABS for like small gun parts like a forward grip etc?
I'd love to make a few picatinny mount adapters for my M1A
exactly
i wouldn't trust a 3d printed gun-anything beyond like a clip to hold your tacticool flashlight
that would be great tbh
or some fkn, i dunno 1911 handle scales or something
decorative shit you don't care if cracks apart
yeh