Re: [OM] 3-D printing, was: New photos up

[Tina Manley]

I also heard a report that all of the gun control laws we are trying to
pass will be meaningless because anyone can use a 3D printer to print out a
working gun and high capacity magazines.

Scary.

Tina

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Which reminds me that I read an interesting article about 3-D printing a
> couple weeks ago.  The aim of the article was to make a claim that 3-D
> printing is advancing and growing so fast that it will soon be a threat
> to the Chinese dominance of manufacturing of many items due to Chinese
> low cost labor.  The claim was that 3-D printing will soon be able to
> reproduce many of these items with quick turnaround, higher quality and
> essentially no labor.  The Chinese are already at something of a
> disadvantage for shipment of materials and finished goods and that will
> only accelerate the advantage of 3-D printing in the US and elsewhere.
>
> True?  I don't know enough about 3-D printing materials capability to
> say for sure but it's an interesting observation.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 3/8/2013 11:31 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> > ...and I guess you can transmit a file then the recipient prints it on
> his
> > 3-D printer.
> >
> > ...Wayne
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