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3D printed guns a zombie survivors best friend
we all know how important guns are in a zombies situation while its possible to survive the hordes of the undead with out them, its much much better with them but guns are hard to get a hold of these days especially in certain states, like mine *cough* new jersey sucks *cough*. and even when you have them if a part breaks unless you have a stock of replacements your fucked, or are you. what if i told you not only could you make replacements parts for your guns at home you can make whole new guns completely automatically with the push of a button.
it's all possible thanks to a revolution in manufacturing called 3d printing. for those of you unfamilure with the concept this is a 3d printer.
it is a machine that can sit right on your desk and make 3 dimensional objects out of heated plastic based off of 3d rendered images. it prints these objects in incredibly fine detail much the way regular printers do. only instead of ink it used heated plastic to first create one layer and then build upon it layer by layer until you have a fully formed plastic object. these amazing little devices can be bought like the brand in the picture called the maker bot now selling its version two model selling for 2,200 dollars. or homemade like this portable model that folds into a brief case and can even fit in the overhead compartment of an airplane.
now until recently this technology was only used in prototyping and making little plastic dodads and toys. that was until a collage kid named Cody Wilson decided to start a company with the soul purpose of creating a 3d printable gun and distributing the plans online for free. when he first started people doubted it was even possible but he proved them wrong first with the liberator. a single shot non reusable hand gun made complete using 3d printing requiring only a roofing nail as the firing pin. now to make this gun legal he had to add a 6 ounce block of steel to the frame so it could be picked up by medal detectors but other wise completely abs plastic and here it is.
now as far as i know the gun can currently only be safely fired once meaning its a one time use and then discard thing but for only a few bucks in plastic it's perfectly fine too. later versions of this gun maybe able to stand up to more shots.like they're complete ar15 lower receiver once again 3d printed requiring only a roofing nail for the firing pin. unlike the liberator this plastic AR receiver has stood up to over 600 rounds or consecutive fire with no noticeable wear.
so far they have also printed several other parts for the AR including a 30 round magazine and stock and while it has taken several prototypes to get to the point where the parts hold up we can see that a future where you can download and print your own gun be it hand gun rifle or what have you completely from scratch with nothing but a few dollars worth of plastic a desktop machine.
obviously the potential for us zombie lovers and preparers is huge. not only can you replace broken parts on your gun but arm an entire army from scratch. as long as you have power and one of these 3d printers that you can make yourself. and not just guns but other usefully devices as long as you have a library of free to download schematics you can make any part you need even. if your handy you can even make the schematic your self. just scan in the part you want to print and little digital wizardry later and you can have an unlimited supply of it. as 3d printers come down in price and go up in ability i think it would be a very good idea to maybe invest in one for your zombie defense plan. we cant print a whole ar yet but one day and maybe one day soon. but the plans for the liberator and the ar lower are already out their i know i got my plans even though i don't have a 3d printer. i should ad the government is really up in arms about this and already talking about laws to restrict it so get your files now while you can. here is the site for the guys making these things its also where you can download the files but when i went that part of the site was "down for maintenance" so i just got mine from the piratebay. so what ever tell me what you think and i leave you with some words from the man who's trying to arm America like Charlton Heston never dreamed.
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Permalink Reply by saint.357 on
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an update as it usually does the government has shoved its big nose where it doesn't belong asking defense distributed to remove its links to these fine 3d printable firearms until it decides if doing this violates some arms trade law i don't know which means you can't get the files from their web site anymore and while they maybe working on newer and better printable guns i don't think they will be allowed to post them any more for a while. but just like pirating movies and songs once their out there the government can't stop them. the files exist second hand on torrent sites like the pirate bay where i found mine. once again i strongly suggest you download these files regardless of whether or not you have a 3d printer. do it so you can get grandfathered in before the gov decides to make these illegal to own. if anyone wants i am willing to send you the files i got. i have the full liberator planes and lots of AR 15 stuff including the lower receiver shown in the video above and other cool things like a 3d printed flash suppressor to only name a few. send me a message here and we'll work something out. just fyi while not necessary you may want to keep these plans in a secure place. i know i got mine in my encrypted drive behind layers of security.
this is important for our future as free men and women. As a great American once said, "A chicken in every pot and a cap in every ass"!
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Permalink Reply by KOMRAD RHINO☭ on
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yeah, i heard of this. they are wanting to ban this all together as far as the firearm industry goes because that is a way to make an untraceable gun. there is also something you should know. they have thus far managed to make frames and stocks with great success. however when it comes to things like springs, pins, and barrels. things that need to withstand the pressures of a cartridge blast. they have not been very successful in this field. and with the gooberment having stuck its big ass nose in. all research there had to be frozen until its settled on the legality of it. its so much bullshit! but on that same note. what good are guns anymore when DHS/Homeland Security keep scarffing up all the ammo? crazy days brothers and sisters. and saner days are not in the horizon yet.
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i know the liberator managed to make a plastic spring and like i said that lower ar receiver all plastic but firing pin. it can be done it can be done. and our goose stepping government may shut these guys down but it's too late the genies out of the bottle now. someone else will step up to the plate and complete the research. we will see a full 3d printed rifle soon. lets remember this is the same government that can't stop illegal downloads of Justen beaver songs, how are they gonna stop this?! as for the ammo if your smart and have the right tools you can make your own. hell theirs even some success with 3d printed bullets. mostly just slugs for shotguns but its a start. their working on 3d printing in metal now. if they can do it with food and human cells why not metal. in the future we won't have stores anymore. people will just have 3d printers in their home. you see something you like you go online by the blueprints from a store webpage and printed yourself. the glories age of home manufacturing is just begging.
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when they master it flawlessly is when i will put stock in it. until then i remain skeptical about making a rifled barrel that will hold the pressures of a rifle round much less the internal parts.
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well the version three of the lower receiver seams to be working just fine. over six hundred rounds of consecutive torture test and no noticeable wear is pretty good. hell the magazines alone make it worth. how good would it be to be able to print up as many magazines as you want in a zpoc. or grip or stock. even if you cant print the stock if you can print everything else. and I'm sure in time the barrel will be able to be printed too. plastics are getting more and more advanced everyday as is our printing method.
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when it comes to guns and ammunition. plastics have their place and not as a vital part. stock? yes. grips? yes. magazines? yes. frames? maybe. but i would never trust something made of total plastic when it comes to a gun. thats just the way i am. yes, that lower receiver took on a lot of tests and won. but so do the ones made by Glock and Springfield Armory and a dozen and a half other gun companies. but they also had metal internal parts in them like the AR15 frame made on the 3D printer. and when it comes to a barrel. part of what makes a barrel accurate is the rifling in the barrel. a 3D printer cant duplicate that. and for it to properly work. the rifling grooves have to be made from metal. otherwise that barrel will be useless within a hand full of shots. and by a hand full. i would venture to say 5 maybe 6 tops because the fire from the powder will melt the all plastic barrel. even if a plastic bullet is used. some things cant be replaced by plastics alone and a good barrel is one of them. even the barrel of the Henry Survival Rifle has metal rifling in it and that is one of the lightest barrels i ever seen in my life to date. and i own 3 of those. then we need to address the bolt. that has to be made of metal no matter how you cut it. reason being not only because of the heat from a fired round but also the abuse of being blown back and slammed forward. an M1 Garand bolt spring has between 8 and 10 pounds of pressure on it. make one of those out of plastic and you will see it crack within one firing and those shoot a 30-06 round. 8 rounds total. plastic would NEVER hold up to that kind of beating. a 22lr maybe. but NEVER a high powered rifle. even if the rifle is a bolt action. the stress and heat would win out. then there is the fact that the power wont be on forever. even a generator can give out and power from them need to be used for more important things. i would sooner use a spear gun only then trust my life on an all plastic gun. and even a spear gun has certain parts made from metal only. otherwise they would give out way faster then normal. due to physics, certain things cant be ignored or trusted to improvisations. and a gun is just one of those things. so in the end. we will still be reduced to melee weapons.
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granted were not heir yet but in some applications Polymer has proven to be stronger then metal which is why more and more gun parts are being made from it. i believe that very soon we will have Polymer that is stronger then steel in all regards. but this a mute point since we will soon be able to 3d print in metal just as we can in plastic. in fact not only will we have it we already have it. it's called
Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) "is an additive metal fabrication technology developed by EOS out of Munich, Germany, sometimes also referred to by the terms selective laser sintering (SLS) or selective laser melting (SLM).
The process involves use of a 3D CAD model whereby a .stl file is created and sent to the machine’s software. A technician works with this 3D model to properly orient the geometry for part building and adds supports structure as appropriate. Once this "build file" has been completed, it is "sliced" into the layer thickness the machine will build in and downloaded to the DMLS machine allowing the build to begin. The DMLS machine uses a high-powered 200 watt Yb-fiber optic laser. Inside the build chamber area, there is a material dispensing platform and a build platform along with a recoater blade used to move new powder over the build platform. The technology fuses metal powder into a solid part by melting it locally using the focused laser beam. Parts are built up additively layer by layer, typically using layers 20 micrometres thick. This process allows for highly complex geometries to be created directly from the 3D CAD data, fully automatically, in hours and without any tooling. DMLS is a net-shape process, producing parts with high accuracy and detail resolution, good surface quality and excellent mechanical properties."
20 micrometres thats 0.02 millimeters. your telling me a machine the builds parts for space shuttle rockets can't make a simple rifling. granted this is currently only an industrial machine their are no home versions just yet but their will be. frankly i can't think of a better use for power. car blows a part just print it. need a new knife, just print it. need a sniper rifle just print it. and this is still only the beginning of 3d printing. one day hopefully with in our lifetimes we will have 3d printers that print at the atomic scale. that means you can take any old junk even your food scrap or your own waste and turn it into any material any object. I'm getting ahead of my self. but a fully functioning gun you print at home is already possible we just need to wait for the price to drop. in the mean time we got a full fledged hand gun and lower AR receiver to play around with. and since the lower receivers the only part thats regulated even i, who live in the one of the most gun controlled states in the union, can have. since the law allows you to make your own gun for personal. now i just need to find a 3d printer, and by the other parts i need.
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in order to install rifling in a barrel. it would have to punch through the barrel it is printing being rifling cant be printed but made from a tube of heat treated aluminum. and being plastic will melt under the fire of burning gun powder. i dont see an entirely plastic barrel working for more then 3 to five shots maximum from a heavier caliber then a 22lr round if at all. if it were made on a metal printer then i would have more faith in it. but you still have the issue of putting rifling in the barrel and you cant just print that stuff. i know. i have re-rifled barrels many times when the rifling was blown out from hot or magnum loads. and a 3D printer cant make these things. the rest maybe. but not the rifling. i dont care how many shuttles that thing builds. and i dont see anyone taking well needed resources to build an entire car. a knife, yes. a stock or forearm, yes. maybe even a small part or three until a metal replacement can be made from metal. but i dont see a completely functioning AR15 being made from 100% plastic. a zip gun, yes. they are nothing more then a glorified bang stick. but nothing as complex as a gun like an AR15 made from nothing but plastic. if the parts came from a metal printer then yes, i can see a full size working battle rifle being made. but not from a plastic printer. i am sorry. but i just dont trust it much less believe it unless i see the barrel being printed up with or around metal rifling by a plastic printer.
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well maybe your right about a plastic riffle barrel until polymers reach the point that they are reliably stronger then metal. but thats not the point really as plastic printing is only one variation of the design popular now because its currently the cheapest. but desktop metal printers will be in home with in a few years I'm sure. as for not being able tor prints rifling why not?! all it is is thread like striations in the interior of the barrel. 3d printers have already proven they can make threading. it's easy if the 3d printer prints the barrel vertically. in fact it's already been done. here's an article about a guy who improved on the liberators design.
Proving that the open source movement is something that ought to be feared and revered, an engineer in Wisconsin has taken the world’s first 3D printed gun — and refined it, so that it can be produced for just $25, with a cheap 3D printer.
When Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed (DefDist) produced the first all-plastic, 3D-printed gun, he did so with a commercial-grade ($8,000+) Stratasys 3D printer. Obviously, this put the 3D-printed gun out of most people’s reach. This was good in one sense — yay, no one can afford to print a gun! — but, when DefDist’s goal is to ensure that every American always has access to guns, you can see how this was a bad thing. Well, Wilson need not have worried: Now an engineer in Wisconsin, identified as only “Joe” by Forbes, has used Wilson’s design to produce a better gun, using a cheaper printer.
The new gun, dubbed the Lulz Liberator, is based on Wilson’s Liberator. As the name suggests, it was printed on a fairly humdrum LulzBot AO-101 3D printer ($1,725), with about $25 of conventional ABS plastic. Unlike the Liberator, the Lulz Liberator uses metal screws to hold the hammer in place, rather than plastic pins. The screws (and the nail which acts a firing pin) are available from any hardware store, though. Even though it isn’t entirely plastic, it’s still very easy to make.
Surprisingly, despite the cheaper printer, the Lulz Liberator seems to be even stronger than Wilson’s original Liberator. According to Joe, the Polylac PA-747 ABS plastic he uses is stronger than the ABS plastic used by the Stratasys. In fact, he actually printed a barrel using his friend’s Stratasys printer (Michael Guslick), and it exploded on firing. The LulzBot-printed barrel, on the other hand, survived eight consecutive shots
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Perhaps more importantly, though, Joe actually went one step further and added rifling to his barrel. Without rifling, Wilson’s Liberator isn’t accurate beyond a few feet, making it rather useless as a weapon — with rifling, the Lulz Liberator might be one step closer to being a functional, dangerous firearm. We say “might,” because Joe hasn’t provided any details that confirm that the plastic rifling is actually working as intended — and for now, with the US Department of State breathing down DefDist’s neck for releasing the Liberator’s CAD files, and lawmakers scrambling to plug the 3D-printed hole, Joe doesn’t have any immediate plans to share the Lulz Liberator CAD files, so no one can replicate his work.
Still, there you have it: The first rifled, plastic 3D gun has been produced — and it costs just $25. Rather than fearing that your life might be ended by someone busting a plastic cap in your ass, though, the much larger concern is that we’re now much closer to governments mandating that 3D printers contain DRM that prevents you from printing guns in the first place.
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here is a video on how the liberator the first fully 3d printed gun works for those of you who are curious. basically its one step above a pipe gun, still cool though.
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Permalink Reply by Jessie W. Garrett III on
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I saw a couple of videos on Youtube about this. I just thought it was kind of cool, till you needed to make a few. I can never see using plastic for anything other then replacing the stock or forward grips. But hey, if it works, it'll be ban due to the easiness of it to pass through metal detectors in airports and other governmental agencies...
But yeah, I would like a copy of your secret files...(L) Never know. Might find one of these machines during Z-poc and need to arm everyone in the compound when traditional firearms are running low....
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