Hi Guys,
I seem to remember that there was a experiment done about two years ago using a 9mm handgun. It was made in "plastic" and it fired one round OK but on the second or third the recover exploded, happily it was during a bench test so no injury's occurred.
A thought, 3D imaging can make the exterior of a handgun but to make the interior pieces the firearm would need to be broken down into component parts,yes???
A second thought about ballistics. If a 3D imager could make a duplicate barrel of a handgun used in a armed robbery how would the police use ballistics anymore to trace the handgun back, now to a number of owners?, ouch.
My brother works in a fabrication plant and one of the machines he calls a CandC machine. Its computer controlled, laser scanning fabricator. It sound a lot like a 3D imager and I'm wondering if the two could be incorporated to manufacture parts without the poorer quality? Also do you need to scan the object each time you make it or could the scanned image be stored in a computer and pulled out when needed?
No matter what its interesting tech, todays 3D imager. tomorrows fabricator?
Roger
I seem to remember that there was a experiment done about two years ago using a 9mm handgun. It was made in "plastic" and it fired one round OK but on the second or third the recover exploded, happily it was during a bench test so no injury's occurred.
A thought, 3D imaging can make the exterior of a handgun but to make the interior pieces the firearm would need to be broken down into component parts,yes???
A second thought about ballistics. If a 3D imager could make a duplicate barrel of a handgun used in a armed robbery how would the police use ballistics anymore to trace the handgun back, now to a number of owners?, ouch.
My brother works in a fabrication plant and one of the machines he calls a CandC machine. Its computer controlled, laser scanning fabricator. It sound a lot like a 3D imager and I'm wondering if the two could be incorporated to manufacture parts without the poorer quality? Also do you need to scan the object each time you make it or could the scanned image be stored in a computer and pulled out when needed?
No matter what its interesting tech, todays 3D imager. tomorrows fabricator?
Roger