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If you have a 3D printer at home, what will you make?

Abyss said:
whatever will keep paranoid upper middle class liberals awake at night :laughing
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I think it's safe enough to assume that anyone who has the time, skills and determination to make their own gun at home would be more than capable of finding a way to create mayhem without a 3d printer.
 
I messed up my carburetor float the other day then thought this.....plastic

Souvenirs can you imagine all the crappy little shops that would disappear with this in their place.
 
I set up and ran two Stereolithography machines back a few years before I retired. I never made anything for myself with the company machine. The resin is very expensive at around 1500 dollars a gallon plus you were burning up laser time. I was however able to run test models so I could confirm the operating parameters. So...I made a 15 inch F-22A Raptor scale model directly from the actual F22 loft data. That model sat on my desk for many years but I returned it to the lab when I retired.
 
i would print my resume in 3D letters, and mail it alphabet-soup style to prospective employers with the following advice: if you are smart enough to assemble this, you do not need to hire me. :p
 
I'd make my nieces their own little "mini me's"... they would love having dolls that looked like them! :)
 
russ69 said:
. So...I made a 15 inch F-22A Raptor scale model directly from the actual F22 loft data. That model sat on my desk for many years but I returned it to the lab when I retired.
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When you retire, aren't you required to take that model, and the machine you made it with, 15 staplers, the bosses copier, 1500 pencils, and some underwear from the hot secretary with you?
 
Scale concepts of other designs. Mostly work stuff.

There is huge threads dedicated to 3D printing fails.

Vice on Youtube has a good piece on 3D guns. So far they suck, the dude doing it needs to learn how to engineer.

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corndog67 said:
When you retire, aren't you required to take that model, and the machine you made it with, 15 staplers, the bosses copier, 1500 pencils, and some underwear from the hot secretary with you?
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No not really, the machine needed it's own room and a water cooling tower. And as far as the hot secretary...they disappeared decades ago, no secretaries in engineering, we all take care of our own shit nowadays.
 
Either all the honest responses are blocked by work filters, or y'all are really being dishonest.

Bongs. Bongs the likes of which the most trippy hippy of the 60's never dared imagine becoming a physical reality.

tho I wonder. Should be able to print with glass without too much effort. PLA head temps are below 300 degrees, while some glass can melt as low as 500. a thin enough glass fiber feed should be doable because you don't want the glass to remain molten too long.
 
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