I've got a glock 17 frame printing right now in Taulman Alloy 910, which is a ridiculously strong nylon. Though I'm still getting used to printing with it (versus just PLA), so this print might end up being scrap.
I'm also considering getting a roll of glass filled Xytel and trying that next. I might need to get a separate nozzle for that though, it might be abrasive.
Yeah - this guy is an idiot.
"You followed my 'blueprint' and used my 'search terms' and you didn't give me credit or clicks, so you stole my video AND my revenue".
lol wut?
"This is EVIL, you STOLE my money".
again, wut?
If you write a book and use english, you are following my 'blueprint' and stealing my money.
Makes perfect sense. What a retard. He is an intellectual property authoritarian, probably a part-time teacher.
Also he is REALLY pissed off about trolls -KEEP TROLLING
(edit: just saw the Tshirt- School of Architecture and Urban Planning. OMG That's makes sense. He needs to give Neil Breen half his revenue for every stupid video he makes)
Yeah - this guy is an idiot.
"You followed my 'blueprint' and used my 'search terms' and you didn't give me credit or clicks, so you stole my video AND my revenue".
lol wut?
"This is EVIL, you STOLE my money".
again, wut?
If you write a book and use english, you are following my 'blueprint' and stealing my money.
Makes perfect sense. What a retard. He is an intellectual property authoritarian, probably a part-time teacher.
Also he is REALLY pissed off about trolls -KEEP TROLLING
(edit: just saw the Tshirt- School of Architecture and Urban Planning. OMG That's makes sense. He needs to give Neil Breen half his revenue for every stupid video he makes)
If so, I'm printing it on an Ender 3, but with a Micro Swiss all metal hotend. I'm printing it at 255 nozzle, 45 build plate (on glass with gluestick). I also have the cooling fan off.
All that was added on top of generic nylon settings that Cura had.
One thing that improved things a lot was reducing the layer height from 0.2mm to 0.1mm. I made a lot of (somehow) mushy test prints at 0.2mm, and I think that's because the individual layers weren't laminating together properly.
Now with those settings, my test prints things are mostly fine. I'm getting most of the small details I need. There's some occasional stringing and blobs, but overall pretty good. Normally I'd spend more time tuning, but after like 3-4 I just kinda became impatient and jumped into printing a full frame. That's about done now (about 2+ day print).
The frame is looking OK. After this I might return to experimenting with small models to see if I can clean up the blobs and stringing. Maybe lower speed or something? Idk.
Now I got the natural colored 910 filament (not sure if there are any other colors), but nylon can be dyed.
Heh, coincidentally, I had an order of 9mm delivered to my door today. So I'm happy about that.
Edit: the stringing and blobs are worse for complex models, for simpler purposes it's probably a lot easier to handle.
If so, I'm printing it on an Ender 3, but with a Micro Swiss all metal hotend. I'm printing it at 255 nozzle, 45 build plate (on glass with gluestick). I also have the cooling fan off.
All that was added on top of generic nylon settings that Cura had.
One thing that improved things a lot was reducing the layer height from 0.2mm to 0.1mm. I made a lot of (somehow) mushy test prints at 0.2mm, and I think that's because the individual layers weren't laminating together properly.
Now with those settings, my test prints things are mostly fine. I'm getting most of the small details I need. There's some occasional stringing and blobs, but overall pretty good. Normally I'd spend more time tuning, but after like 3-4 I just kinda became impatient and jumped into printing a full frame. That's about done now (about 2+ day print).
The frame is looking OK. After this I might return to experimenting with small models to see if I can clean up the blobs and stringing. Maybe lower speed or something? Idk.
Now I got the natural colored 910 filament (not sure if there are any other colors), but nylon can be dyed.
Heh, coincidentally, I had an order of 9mm delivered to my door today. So I'm happy about that.
Edit: the stringing and blobs are worse for complex models, for simpler purposes it's probably a lot easier to handle.
If so, I'm printing it on an Ender 3, but with a Micro Swiss all metal hotend. I'm printing it at 255 nozzle, 45 build plate (on glass with gluestick). I also have the cooling fan off.
All that was added on top of generic nylon settings that Cura had.
One thing that improved things a lot was reducing the layer height from 0.2mm to 0.1mm. I made a lot of (somehow) mushy test prints at 0.2mm, and I think that's because the individual layers weren't laminating together properly.
Now with those settings, my test prints things are mostly fine. I'm getting most of the small details I need. There's some occasional stringing and blobs, but overall pretty good. Normally I'd spend more time tuning, but after like 3-4 I just kinda became impatient and jumped into printing a full frame. That's about done now (about 2+ day print).
The frame is looking OK. After this I might return to experimenting with small models to see if I can clean up the blobs and stringing. Maybe lower speed or something? Idk.
Now I got the natural colored 910 filament (not sure if there are any other colors), but nylon can be dyed.
Heh, coincidentally, I had an order of 9mm delivered to my door today. So I'm happy about that.
Edit: the stringing and blobs are worse for complex models, for simpler purposes it's probably a lot easier to handle.
Nice setup.
I haven't printed in a while - I was at the bleeding edge of everything in the early 2000s.
My question: do you do any post treatment - I used to flame and/or acetone mist depending on the polymer.
I bet that new alloy is a BITCH to post-treat.
@Distant Stare - I learned that polymers are 'Cheese- not Water'. You can melt and freeze water forever, can't do that with cheese-makes oily curdy crap. Most weed-wacker cord is made of shitty regrind and 'chicken-shit' (industry term, not even kidding). The chains that snap in the grinder will not combine well when recast. TL;DR shitty polymer = shitty product. My 2 cents.
I have a custom machine I made myself that I would be willing to sell. It has a BL touch, original E3D all metal, 32 bit main board, coreXY, modular toolhead, dual Z axis, with sensorless homing. It would be expensive however. I would not let it go for less than 700 dollars.
As for store bought machines, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to make miniatures or models, get a resin printer.
Honestly I love my Ender. I have gotten to the point with it that it always print flawlessly. I never have warping, bed adhesion issues, or major artifacts. I upgraded it with a bondtech BMG, PEI bed, and silent drivers.
Next on my list when I get some money is buying a laser and trying to make an SLS aluminium printer.
I have a custom machine I made myself that I would be willing to sell. It has a BL touch, original E3D all metal, 32 bit main board, coreXY, modular toolhead, dual Z axis, with sensorless homing. It would be expensive however. I would not let it go for less than 700 dollars.
As for store bought machines, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to make miniatures or models, get a resin printer.
Honestly I love my Ender. I have gotten to the point with it that it always print flawlessly. I never have warping, bed adhesion issues, or major artifacts. I upgraded it with a bondtech BMG, PEI bed, and silent drivers.
Next on my list when I get some money is buying a laser and trying to make an SLS aluminium printer.
I think we know each other enough to understand... I ain't making WH40k figurines.
Anyway. The price is too steep (but fair) for a NEET like me. Maybe when I get some income.
I dismissed 3dprinting a while ago due to what I call 'Intellectual Logjams'. Any time an application or technology came along that REALLY had potential, the maker community would cancel/delete/remove it. Thingiverse was the instigator of this mindset. Hell the entire 'Technocrat Culture' is as well... Gatekeepers are something inventors do not need.
I like DD b/c they are against Gatekeeping. I will upload his book asap.
I think we know each other enough to understand... I ain't making WH40k figurines.
Any time an application or technology came along that REALLY had potential, the maker community would cancel/delete/remove it. Thingiverse was the instigator of this mindset. Hell the entire 'Technocrat Culture' is as well... Gatekeepers are something inventors do not need.
The entire "Maker" community is composed of low T soy boys who make comic shit to pass the time in their meaningless life. Despite being armed with the most powerful tools in human existence, they wield them like a frightened women.
I am sure that once I build my open source aluminium printer they will Cody Wilson me, and I will be un-personed.
Never heard of it but sounds like a good read. I recommend reading CNTRL ALT REVOLT. It is about tech censorship and AI. The AIs in the book decide to destroy the human race because they watched a reality TV show about abortion.
what's the current hurdle that holds DD from publishing files? I heard the last time it was about ITAR that prohibited them hosting on internet, ruled by some judge. Is that the latest status on legal status of it?
I find a lot of files are that basically shit and STL format doesn't help if you want to mod them yourself, in fact some STL files have lots of problems with meshes too. It's almost like some glownigger is putting that crap and spreads them.
what's the current hurdle that holds DD from publishing files? I heard the last time it was about ITAR that prohibited them hosting on internet, ruled by some judge. Is that the latest status on legal status of it?
I find a lot of files are that basically shit and STL format doesn't help if you want to mod them yourself, in fact some STL files have lots of problems with meshes too. It's almost like some glownigger is putting that crap and spreads them.
just make sure that you get a copy of ID from your hookers and a written consent form, we don't want you to get Assanged either.
>This
The entire "Maker" community is composed of low T soy boys who make comic shit to pass the time in their meaningless life. Despite being armed with the most powerful tools in human existence, they wield them like a frightened women.
aint that the truth. I am still wondering why Thingiverse allows the countless trampling of copyright/Trademarked figurines? Didn't the lego fiasco teach them?
BTW: Book is attached.
Attachments
Cody Wilson - Come and Take It; The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free.epub
Follow my link to lbry.tv
I'm pretty sure the DD files are hosted there.
aint that the truth. I am still wondering why Thingiverse allows the countless trampling of copyright/Trademarked figurines? Didn't the lego fiasco teach them?
If I am ever in the same position as Cody Wilson, and I am deprived of my freedom for the rest of my days. I would hope that my friends would liberate me with a cyanide pill. Then my spirit could be free, and one day the people might know that I was right.
The entire "Maker" community is composed of low T soy boys who make comic shit to pass the time in their meaningless life. Despite being armed with the most powerful tools in human existence, they wield them like a frightened women....
I have been thinking of this statement and how it relates to the world.
These lefty soys with 3d printers, working together have the manufacturing/industrial ability to bring societal and economic change.
They could undermine the pharma markets with free/low cost prosthetics
They could destroy the monetization of IP by reverse engineering patents.
They could implement TRUE societal change by the distribution of 3d printed firearms, or knives/punch daggers.
Instead, they bow to Lego and keep printing 3d fanboi art. pathetic.
There was a short story about 3d printing and societal change, written by William Gibson (cyberpunk, Johnny Mnemonic, etc). He hinted at the POWER of 3d printing. How markets would collapse and society would need to reinvent itself. Yeah, nope.
I will add the short story when I find it.
I think the story is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral
but Gibson is a fucking retarded commie that understands nothing about science/technology beyond Wired magazine, so fuck him.
Are the commies this stupid or this scared? Or is what we are seeing all bullshit?
My answer: What is happening is either neither 'socialism' nor 'communism'. It's some kind of Technocratic Authoritarian Oligarchy, with pseudo-left tendencies. But you already knew this...
It's like the CHAZ farm. Minimal effort with zero results. They actually want fast food and delivered pizza.
There was a short story about 3d printing and societal change, written by William Gibson (cyberpunk, Johnny Mnemonic, etc). He hinted at the POWER of 3d printing. How markets would collapse and society would need to reinvent itself. Yeah, nope.
I will add the short story when I find it.
This might be what you are talking about, it is called Print Crime.
You are right that the Maker Community are pathetic. I have been thinking about it for a long time and have written a manifesto of sorts about what I think will happen.
In short, technology has become increasingly powerful in the hands of your average person. With just a 3D printer and some soldering skills, you can make nearly anything. Want a machine gun drone powered by AI that tracks down and shoots people? No problem. Do you want to make a landmine? Easy.
This is just one example. Now consider the biotechnology and biohacking revolution. Soon you will be able to make a bioweapon at home. Just print out some DNA, paste it into E. coli, and you can make small pox in the kitchen.
Combine all of this with consumer grade general AI, and you can do literally anything. Just tell your AI what you want to do, no advanced degree in programming needed. A good example of something like this already happening is Wolfram Alpha. You can ask it advanced mathematics questions in plain English and it will answer you.
So what will happen when the government and general publics learns about this new power? The same thing they always do. They will try to regulate it so it does not pose a danger to the system. They will regulate AI. They will take away your printers. They will make it so that you need a licence to learn certain information. Imagine needed to get a background check to learn python, or gene editing. That is what will happen.
No enclosure. I have a drybox for my filament, but no enclosure. Not seeing much warping, but it sticks to my glass bed pretty tightly. I pretty much gotta take the flat thing and bang the glass plate against it against my counter until it pops up.
The one on the far right is PLA. Then the natural colored ones from right to left show my gradual improvement in printing Alloy 910. Also, one thing to keep in mind is that they had support structures under their tails, between their legs, and around their neck. These pictures show them after I pulled it off. Also it should be noted that calibration cat has toes, including rear toes. The rear toes for the PLA model are very clean, you can see right through them. That's rarely the case with the 910 models.
One thing is that my very first 910 print (A) was very... squishy. Which is really not what I was expecting. This is supposed to be super durable, rigid stuff.
The first thing I tried was switching from 40% infill to 100% infill. That's the difference between A and B.
Honestly, at some point, I'll want to return to 40% infill*, because I think that theoretically I should be able to have a rigid shell with 40% infill if I'm printing some random solid part, but I'll get to that later.
* for non-firearm purposes, of course; I'll dump all my filament into a firearm frame, but just for non-gun hobbyist stuff, 40% should be fine
B was less squishy, but still a bit squishy. I shouldn't feel any give when I squeeze it. Plus it also felt like it had a weird... skin to it? Like there was a tough inner core, but the flat vertical face layer was peeling off? Idk, I felt like I was completely fucking up by this point.
Between B and C, I think I played with the temperature settings and increased the temperature. That caused better layer adhesion all over. But the ears are still kind of flexible and floppy.
The final jump between C and D was reducing the layer height from 0.2mm to 0.1mm. That looks really good, feels really good. The ears aren't floppy. And it doesn't show up well in that picture, but the facial details you can see on the PLA version are actually showing up. Not perfect, but they're starting to show up.
The downsides for D are still that there's random blobs. The random blobs chip off easily enough, but that stringing is more durable.
I chanced my D settings on a 2 day (lol) glock frame print. I'm not... super happy with it. I'll try to clean it up with a craft knife, but idk, I think I'm going to return to calibrator cats for awhile before trying for a full duty frame. (I'd try zytel, and maybe at some point I'll pick up a roll, but it's a nylon too, so I might as well learn some lessons on this 910 while I've got it)
Nice setup.
I haven't printed in a while - I was at the bleeding edge of everything in the early 2000s.
My question: do you do any post treatment - I used to flame and/or acetone mist depending on the polymer.
I bet that new alloy is a BITCH to post-treat.
Like to smooth down the layers? I looked into that as a future possibility in case I make a frame I really want to use in practice. For now I don't really care too much.
Combine all of this with consumer grade general AI, and you can do literally anything. Just tell your AI what you want to do, no advanced degree in programming needed. A good example of something like this already happening is Wolfram Alpha. You can ask it advanced mathematics questions in plain English and it will answer you.
So what will happen when the government and general publics learns about this new power? The same thing they always do. They will try to regulate it so it does not pose a danger to the system. They will regulate AI. They will take away your printers. They will make it so that you need a licence to learn certain information. Imagine needed to get a background check to learn python, or gene editing. That is what will happen.
AI worries kind of annoy me because they're more based in sci-fi than realistic understandings of the technology involved. Like how AI gets "exponentially better" and things like that. The thing to keep in mind is that AI is extremely expensive in energy. There is no such thing as a free lunch. That's as true in economics as is in thermodynamics. And knowledge gathering is still a thermodynamic problem.
If a person spends a long amount of time learning a special area of knowledge, they reduce the entropy in their head (organizing their brain so that their respond to correctly to the right queries) by a lot, at the expense of pooping out a lot of entropy in the world around them. They consume a lot of glucose, that came from farms and plants and a lot of people disturbing the world around them, just so they could reduce the entropy in their head by a lot.
Computers operate along fundamentally the same rules. They just don't get bored in the ways that humans do. But they can't learn, on average, at faster rates than humans. If you spend some time to learn how neural networks work, they pretty much just spin their wheels trying literally every combination of neuron activation values until they achieved the desired result. This takes a lot of energy. You're not gaining anything a bunch of humans couldn't do and they don't operate at faster curves than humans do.
Wolfram Alpha works because they route everyone's queries through one big, energy guzzling centralized server. (Or probably a few servers scattered around due to proximity.)
About people regulating knowledge and 3d printers and such: eh... I think that while there's an instinctual fear in the the powers-that-be of threats to their power, I think that only the most brain dead of them actually think that these tech innovations are serious threats to their power. I think that political power is fundamentally rooted in masses and masses of people. They smart ones know that if they start fucking with people's access to knowledge, they won't actually address the problem and they'll just be fucking with the source of their power itself. That's not profitable to them.
Basically two points: 1) you can't possibly regulate knowledge; 2) controlling access to knowledge has never been the source of anyone's power, it's always been being on good terms with the people
I would argue that most people in power in America know and understand both 1 and 2. Perhaps there's a thin veneer of stupids who are the visible surface of American power who screech about 3d printed guns, but there's a big underwater iceberg of people who are smart enough to not give a shit.
No enclosure. I have a drybox for my filament, but no enclosure. Not seeing much warping, but it sticks to my glass bed pretty tightly. I pretty much gotta take the flat thing and bang the glass plate against it against my counter until it pops up.
The one on the far right is PLA. Then the natural colored ones from right to left show my gradual improvement in printing Alloy 910. Also, one thing to keep in mind is that they had support structures under their tails, between their legs, and around their neck. These pictures show them after I pulled it off. Also it should be noted that calibration cat has toes, including rear toes. The rear toes for the PLA model are very clean, you can see right through them. That's rarely the case with the 910 models.
One thing is that my very first 910 print (A) was very... squishy. Which is really not what I was expecting. This is supposed to be super durable, rigid stuff.
The first thing I tried was switching from 40% infill to 100% infill. That's the difference between A and B.
Honestly, at some point, I'll want to return to 40% infill*, because I think that theoretically I should be able to have a rigid shell with 40% infill if I'm printing some random solid part, but I'll get to that later.
* for non-firearm purposes, of course; I'll dump all my filament into a firearm frame, but just for non-gun hobbyist stuff, 40% should be fine
B was less squishy, but still a bit squishy. I shouldn't feel any give when I squeeze it. Plus it also felt like it had a weird... skin to it? Like there was a tough inner core, but the flat vertical face layer was peeling off? Idk, I felt like I was completely fucking up by this point.
Between B and C, I think I played with the temperature settings and increased the temperature. That caused better layer adhesion all over. But the ears are still kind of flexible and floppy.
The final jump between C and D was reducing the layer height from 0.2mm to 0.1mm. That looks really good, feels really good. The ears aren't floppy. And it doesn't show up well in that picture, but the facial details you can see on the PLA version are actually showing up. Not perfect, but they're starting to show up.
The downsides for D are still that there's random blobs. The random blobs chip off easily enough, but that stringing is more durable.
I chanced my D settings on a 2 day (lol) glock frame print. I'm not... super happy with it. I'll try to clean it up with a craft knife, but idk, I think I'm going to return to calibrator cats for awhile before trying for a full duty frame. (I'd try zytel, and maybe at some point I'll pick up a roll, but it's a nylon too, so I might as well learn some lessons on this 910 while I've got it)
Like to smooth down the layers? I looked into that as a future possibility in case I make a frame I really want to use in practice. For now I don't really care too much.
I can see that being a pain with 910.
AI worries kind of annoy me because they're more based in sci-fi than realistic understandings of the technology involved. Like how AI gets "exponentially better" and things like that. The thing to keep in mind is that AI is extremely expensive in energy. There is no such thing as a free lunch. That's as true in economics as is in thermodynamics. And knowledge gathering is still a thermodynamic problem.
If a person spends a long amount of time learning a special area of knowledge, they reduce the entropy in their head (organizing their brain so that their respond to correctly to the right queries) by a lot, at the expense of pooping out a lot of entropy in the world around them. They consume a lot of glucose, that came from farms and plants and a lot of people disturbing the world around them, just so they could reduce the entropy in their head by a lot.
Computers operate along fundamentally the same rules. They just don't get bored in the ways that humans do. But they can't learn, on average, at faster rates than humans. If you spend some time to learn how neural networks work, they pretty much just spin their wheels trying literally every combination of neuron activation values until they achieved the desired result. This takes a lot of energy. You're not gaining anything a bunch of humans couldn't do and they don't operate at faster curves than humans do.
Wolfram Alpha works because they route everyone's queries through one big, energy guzzling centralized server. (Or probably a few servers scattered around due to proximity.)
About people regulating knowledge and 3d printers and such: eh... I think that while there's an instinctual fear in the the powers-that-be of threats to their power, I think that only the most brain dead of them actually think that these tech innovations are serious threats to their power. I think that political power is fundamentally rooted in masses and masses of people. They smart ones know that if they start fucking with people's access to knowledge, they won't actually address the problem and they'll just be fucking with the source of their power itself. That's not profitable to them.
Basically two points: 1) you can't possibly regulate knowledge; 2) controlling access to knowledge has never been the source of anyone's power, it's always been being on good terms with the people
I would argue that most people in power in America know and understand both 1 and 2. Perhaps there's a thin veneer of stupids who are the visible surface of American power who screech about 3d printed guns, but there's a big underwater iceberg of people who are smart enough to not give a shit.
This might be what you are talking about, it is called Print Crime.
...
You are right that the Maker Community are pathetic. I have been thinking about it for a long time and have written a manifesto of sorts about what I think will happen.
In short, technology has become increasingly powerful in the hands of your average person. With just a 3D printer and some soldering skills, you can make nearly anything. Want a machine gun drone powered by AI that tracks down and shoots people? No problem. Do you want to make a landmine? Easy.
This is just one example. Now consider the biotechnology and biohacking revolution. Soon you will be able to make a bioweapon at home. Just print out some DNA, paste it into E. coli, and you can make small pox in the kitchen.
Combine all of this with consumer grade general AI, and you can do literally anything. Just tell your AI what you want to do, no advanced degree in programming needed. A good example of something like this already happening is Wolfram Alpha. You can ask it advanced mathematics questions in plain English and it will answer you.
So what will happen when the government and general publics learns about this new power? The same thing they always do. They will try to regulate it so it does not pose a danger to the system. They will regulate AI. They will take away your printers. They will make it so that you need a licence to learn certain information. Imagine needed to get a background check to learn python, or gene editing. That is what will happen.
Two stories come to mind, Isaac Asimov "The Dead Past" and another one where the protaganist lives in a future where AI controls everything to the point humans cannot even do basic math. He starts to derive math prinicples and kills himself b/c he understands the Pandora's Box he opened. Of course there are more stories...
True democracy requires, no, DEMANDS personal effort and responsibility. No handholding. No rehabilitation. No moral compass imposed by the State. The power and responsibility are yours. This terrifies any tyranny, be it Left or Right.
Thus, we have the Gatekeepers.
Imagine a world where anyone could say 'nigger' on Twitter? Much less printing viri or distributing technical data on weapons.
Insanity. (sarc)
(btw - Print Crime wasn't it, but tyvm. I really believe it was an early draft of Gibson's The Peripheral, probably put in Playboy like Stephen King used to do)
PLACEHOLDER:
Naomi was invited last week, and has yet to answer the call.
