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2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:18 pm
by JeremyV
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.
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:48 pm
by Jules
Nice! (And I won't be letting hubs see that.)
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:50 pm
by JeremyV
Here is a better view
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:56 pm
by jsc
Hm, won't that melt down the first time it's fired through? Was this at SHOT?
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:35 am
by Vandal968
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
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:48 am
by Slipshine
shot show was well covered by this group. Had a few items there myself.
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:59 am
by Vandal968
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
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:45 am
by JeremyV
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
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:45 pm
by willnewton
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.
Re: 2nd day printing with the m2
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 7:39 pm
by Vandal968
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
