I’d suggest sanding with coarse to medium sand paper, then filler primer. The sanding will help with primer adhesion and reduce the number of extra coats.

This is 'murica. we use Webster’s here.

(sorry. couldn’t resist. you are correct. this isn’t a solution.)

not really. Well let me put it this way. The firearms that are entirely 3d printed are basically one-shot weapons.

the firearms that are single-printed components (or maybe more,) aren’t printing components that are part of the firing mechanism. for example, the DefCad team, they’re printing lower receiver for an AR. All the lower receiver does is holds the magazine in place for feeding into the chamber. For some technically obscure reason, it’s the part that is defined as “the” firearm for the purposes of registration.

the reason most ghost guns aren’t actually being printed is because there’s easier ways to get better firearms. Like driving to a state that allows the gunshow loophole and buying them cheap and flipping them in NY or whatever. printed ghost guns are… relatively uncommon, overall.

an Ender 3’s print quality is too low to reliably handle any of the critical components, even for one or two uses. something like the defcad AR lower receiver (which is for some odd reason designated as “the firearm” under ATF regulations…) can absolutely be printed, but not reliably by an ender 3- at least not a stock ender 3. (the defcad team was using resin printers for the dimensional accuracy.)

in any case, you can go to any big box hardware store, drop around 30 bucks in plumbing parts and some quality time with a dremel will produce a fully automatic firearm. should we now regulate plumbing hardware?

“Three-dimensionally printed firearms, a type of untraceable ghost gun, can be built by anyone using a $150 three-dimensional printer,” Rajkumar wrote in a memorandum explaining the bill. “This bill will require a background check so that three-dimensional printed firearms do not get in the wrong hands.”

… No way an ender 3 is going to produce something that doesn’t blow up in your hand.

so. i suggest people get that 150 dollar lol-printer. Should take care of itself.

what’s a bit of snuggling between friends?

Honestly… even before the meltdown, content was mostly crap.

For kbin/lemmy to be useful; it needs to be its own thing. Emulating crap is just crappier crap.

the only content on reddit is bots reposting shit… and Spez playing the sad trombone.

wait… you can do that?
Can I learn this power?! how does one learn this power?

Snuggles? Be cute and snuggly.

I’ve got a neighbor whose cat is veritable feline Houdini… he gets out every so often. And usually, it’s to come over to my green house and steal carrots. (yeah, don’t ask. he doesn’t eat them. doesn’t take them home. We have no idea what he does with them.)

Don’t ask questions. just embrace it. (I’ve gotten to catsit Sykes on a few occasions now. the old man is a blast.)

I wonder if the FBI would be interested in a list of Us Representatives that are receiving bribes from foreign powers.

I got a list!

Disbarred and maybe get all their previous rulings looked at. maybe retried.

it’s texas, though. Chances are they’re gonna give that guy a medal. or something.

This is because you are his. you belong to him. and you’re infinitely more comfortable than that stupid little bed thing…

tell me, does this fit the F710, or will I need a different part…

Okay. This is freaking hilarious.

Hopefully the people are okay, but like… ya know?

https://imgur.com/Ep4CiC5.gif
(edit: @heavyboots, it didn’t seem to work… darn. )

So like. It’s probably only a matter of time. But yeah. If he were dead… they wouldn’t be silent about it

I’ve played with extruding my own- basically using chips from failed prints and heater cartridges in what’s basically a giant hot end.

The problem I have is consistency of diameter. my set up was a vertical extruder using 2” black pipe that had a melt zone of around six inches before hitting a tapered out brass “heat block” that came down to the 3mm nozzle.

It was almost impossible to maintain a consistent extrusion.

People are playing with it more now, so it’s possible I’m missing solutions

“Halp! I’m being brutishly mauled! Halp Halp!”…. “Hahah you’ve fallen for our infamous trap!” <commences licking the human.>