Are 3-D printed car parts a thing yet? Since they started printing

>>16764878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZrJsrTT4EA

3D printers are a shitty manufacturing tool. They're not the future like everyone says they are.

Yeah 3D parts have been a thing for a while. Don't expect any parts that require extreme durability.

3D printed shit in metal has the durability of gravity casting or worse. The advanced techniques that can create stronger parts are too expensive to bother with outside of aerospace and supercars.

>>16764878
C&C milling machines have been capable of that for a couple of decades now at least.

>>16764896
They're great in special cases, such as when transporting anything is prohibitively expensive.
The ISS is getting great use out of theirs, for example.

>>16764878
It's called a CNC machine.

>>16764878
Koenigsegg made a turbo that's printed inside of the head or some shit. In general, printable materials aren't strong enough for most automotive applications. You can print cores, plugs, and molds for carbon or glass fiber parts, though.

You can use printed parts for investment casting.
GM used a similar process with foam for Saturn engine block.

>>16765176
PLA/ABS maybe, but nylon is tugh enogh to print a gun out of it.

>>16765247
>.32 ACP
>Single shot
Wow, it's fucking nothing. I know people who own airshit guns with more firepower than that.

>>16765287
It is something, also throttbodies, intake runners and superchargers are stressed much less...

>>16765328
Throttle butterflies are stressed a lot more. Don't even fucking think of 3D printing one unless you want to engine to run away until the bits of shit jam up your valves and then get smashed by the pistons.

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>>16764934
>C&C

>>16764878
things like buttons, interior trim, side mouldings etc are all viable
things like superchargers aren't

I wouldn't trust a melted, sintered metal part vs a forged construct.

If I was a gorillion-aire, I'd open a factory for custom tooling parts for /o/.

You want an aluminum billet 3800? You got it senpai.

>>16765410
CNC Generals is my favorite strategy game

>>16765287
you mean air soft guns or air guns? There's a difference mate. Airsoft are toys, the rest are weapons but low power.

How to instantly identify someone that's never worked with their hands or made anything
>dude 3D printing man, what if you could 3d print a GUN or a CAR PART?!?!
Well, you can already make those things easily with a drill press or cheap mill that costs much less, and is easy to learn, it's been this way for decades
>yeah but 3D PRINTING!

>>16764934
>>16765142
CNC mills and lathes are subtractive, not additive. Although, technically a 3D printer is still CNC.

>>16764878
3D printing is good for certain plastic parts that would normally require a die and press or vacuum forming. They aren't really good for manufacturing because they don't have a lot of consistency. The parts they make usually require hand finishing.

>>16765721
.32 ACP is a toy