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Angus Young

clint29 wrote:

3d printing will be massive in the next decade and then we'll be able to shoot everyone with our plastic handguns.

Yep, that's the one. Expect an epidemic of guns in this country once they work that one out (there's already been a guy in the U.S. doing it but I can't remember how well it worked in that instance).

rockmonkeysc

clint29 wrote:

3d printing will be massive in the next decade and then we'll be able to shoot everyone with our plastic handguns.

Even the highest quality 3d printing is still a bit ropey for quality and accuracy. It has a use in prototyping but even then needs some finishing work to make it right.
The mechanical properties are pretty crap. No grain structure in metals means very low strength.

Angus Young

RockmonkeySC wrote:

clint29 wrote:

3d printing will be massive in the next decade and then we'll be able to shoot everyone with our plastic handguns.

Even the highest quality 3d printing is still a bit ropey for quality and accuracy. It has a use in prototyping but even then needs some finishing work to make it right.
The mechanical properties are pretty crap. No grain structure in metals means very low strength.

All mere technicalities that will be overcome in the next few years. This will be the next big growth industry.

clint29

There is a massive shortage of HGV drivers in this country and trials are currently due to start on the M6 of a convoy of ten automated lorries. Problem solved. Within the next fifty years no one will be driving a car with the conventional controls, they'll simply price them off the roads or offer a scrappage scheme incentive.
Technology is evolving at a rapid pace and will continue to do so. 100 years ago they were fighting in trenches and very basic aircraft were just starting to change the whole concept of war, we now have the capability to eliminate a single person without collateral damage and the possibility of living on another planet is looking viable. The future is upon us it's 28b 1x13.

Thewaylander

cooldad wrote:

My first PC at home had a whole 4k of RAM. And a massive 2gig hard drive. And that wasn't that long ago.

Weren't you ahead of the times... ZX81 with 1 k of ram! mazog maze awesome

cooldad

Thewaylander wrote:

cooldad wrote:

My first PC at home had a whole 4k of RAM. And a massive 2gig hard drive. And that wasn't that long ago.

Weren't you ahead of the times... ZX81 with 1 k of ram! mazog maze awesome

Yeah, I waited until they invented internet porn.

The Rookie

Hey, my first works computer had no hard drive at all, I was lucky as mine had a dual floppy drives so I could copy floppy discs quickly, the guys with the older machines had to swap the source and destination discs a few times while copying.

RMSC is behind the times, 3D printing is already being used to produce production parts for cars and bikes, that is from powdered metal though, plastic parts are brittle as you can't get fibre reinforcing to work well (many plastic parts are glass filled). Wiggins bars for the hour record were 3D printed Ti.

cooldad

Work was different. I had a modem that looked like two rubber doughnuts you pushed an old dog bone shaped phone into.

Later I remember fighting for a budget to buy my dept DX instead of SX processors.

And how exciting was a colour screen - no more green or orange.

Even earlier I was a whizz at splicing telex tapes.

Good times.

JBA

RockmonkeySC wrote:

clint29 wrote:

3d printing will be massive in the next decade and then we'll be able to shoot everyone with our plastic handguns.

Even the highest quality 3d printing is still a bit ropey for quality and accuracy. It has a use in prototyping but even then needs some finishing work to make it right.
The mechanical properties are pretty crap. No grain structure in metals means very low strength.

Charge titanium Freezer frame from about 4 years ago:



The rear drop outs are made using Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM), which is effectively 3D printing of metal.





What do I know though? I only work for the company that produced them.

The Rookie

Lynskey said they were going to make there Ti dropouts the same way.