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Re:Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun? by 0x12 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @05:47PM (#3019739)
Fine, so cast it using the lost wax method and clean it up. There are literally a hundred different ways in which you could make this part for pennies and some of those methods would be much more rapid and much cheaper than 3D printing.
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Re:Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun? by georgieporgie on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:02PM (#3020142)
Are you seriously trying to suggest that carving the part plug, building a box, acquiring appropriate sand, packing the part into the sand, acquiring and melting metal, pouring said metal, then finishing the part's surface is anything like the ease of downloading, printing, and waiting?

Yes, building a 3D printer is an investment now. But cheap, common 3D printers are going to become a reality, and soon.

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