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I'm not someone who would otherwise own a 3D printer for other things. I have never had a reason to buy one. In fact, until the 3D gun story I wasn't aware of any private people owning these kinds of printers outside of a univercity or larg fabrication shop. In my field we don't print hardware and tools, we buy them. I've never even seen a 3D printer.Jerry I have allot of respect for you, but why on this issue are you pretending to be stupid? I have seen and agreed with far to many of your posts to fall for that.
A 3D printer can be used to print allot more than a 1 shot over glorified zip gun. As was mentioned before magazines, receivers and other low impact gun parts including silencers can all be printed on any 3D printer with plentiful cheap ABS media. That is just an example of the things available for gun enthusiasts. When you add in all the everyday items and even furniture, tools and much more the price of the printer is not really a consideration as only an idiot would pay $800 to $1600 just to print a zip gun. When printing pictures I guess you figure in the cost of the laser or inkjet printer? Of course not, same thing. You do however figure in the cost of consumables. In this case they are pretty cheap and readily available for any 3d printer, even the older models.
To be honest I could care less about the gun and had already planned to buy one to print magazines and a receiver for my next AK build. Now even after that I will continue to use it for other things like miniatures I use for modeling, wargaming and certain floating dive equipment. I can also use it to print plastic buckles etc that break on my gear rather than having to order them. I can use it for hundreds of other items that I can print cheaply. In a year or less it will have paid for itself in saving me money on other things.
So your argument here is nutty at best.
A 3D printer is not something carpenters already own, so yes I would have to buy one, and I have no use for it professionally. I have no idea what I would use a 3D printer for.
If you're to stupid to understand that I would have to buy a printer since I don't already own one, that's your problem, not mine.
And yes when considering an ink printer I consider what kinds of things I need to print. I'm not going to buy a high-end laser printer if I'm only making common documents. I also figure how many documents I need to make in a given month. I used to just save the file and have OfficeMax print them until the cost of gas was grater than the cost of the printer.
Not very many people already own 3D printers. Like any new tech, you should remember that fact. When DVDs first came out most people had to rent a player from the movie store. Same thing. So where's the 3D printer rental shop?
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