2nd day printing with the m2

JeremyV · Post by **JeremyV** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:18 pm

I am a competition shooter and got my M2 the day before I left for a trade show and started printing things at our booth here is a photo of a prototype I printed while I was there. This is printed with pla. The black part on the end is what I printed. I used a file to smooth it just a little and a quick spray of flat black paint.

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:48 pm

Nice! (And I won't be letting hubs see that.)

JeremyV · Post by **JeremyV** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:50 pm

Here is a better view

jsc · Post by **jsc** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:56 pm

Hm, won't that melt down the first time it's fired through? Was this at SHOT?

Vandal968 · Post by **Vandal968** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:35 am

Jeremy, were you at SHOT? I just got back last night, we were displaying several items that were printed on the M2. In the last week prior to the show, I was printing so many parts and iterations that I started naming my gcode files Build plate 1, 2, etc. I did 28 plates full of parts just in the last week. The final one was started at 2:38am Sunday night when I went to bed, and I set my alarm for 5:30am to join up with my team and make the drive to LV (we're PHX based).

We're Salted Earth, we were on the 3rd floor in the NEXT Pavilion (laser-based firearms training).

cheers,
c

Slipshine · Post by **Slipshine** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:48 am

shot show was well covered by this group. Had a few items there myself.

Vandal968 · Post by **Vandal968** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:59 am

BTW, I was GOING to bring my M2 for emergencies and I just ran out of time and space in the car to pack it. I wish I had known that there was someone there with one, I would have happily bartered for the printing of two small parts (beer is universal currency, right?). Next time around we should do a roll-call here to see who's going.

Speaking of Roll-Call, you guys probably know one of these guys. I'm the other one.

This was our booth, several of the items in the glass case were straight off the M2.

cheers,
c

JeremyV · Post by **JeremyV** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:45 am

Yes this was at shotshow and I was printing the whole week showing off the printer and giving away shotshell holders.

And yes that part would explode if the gun was fired it was a prototype and for looks only.
I almost posted about going to shotshow but didn't want to rock the boat with antigun people. We definitely need to meet up next time

willnewton · Post by **willnewton** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:45 pm

Vandal968 wrote:Speaking of Roll-Call, you guys probably know one of these guys. I'm the other one.

Right on! RL Ermey owns an M2 and just uses "vandal968" as his code name.

Here is a little M2 armament for y'all. Here are my 10-meter air pistol grips with a little inlay.

Vandal968 · Post by **Vandal968** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 7:39 pm

Very nice. Is the inlay printed in place, or filled-in afterwards? If after, how?

It's pretty easy to use a contrasting color for raised text, but I haven't found a good method for the recessed stuff. Typically, I want to do it for things like these to get some color into the logos:

https://grabcad.com/library/salted-eart ... ver-link-1

https://grabcad.com/library/salted-eart ... er-block-1

cheers,
c

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