I’m skeptical about anything 3d printed thats sold as a finished product and not raw CAD files.
who’s to say the operator of the printer knows what they are doing? is the printer dialed in with all the necessary steps to make a high quality print? What printer are they using? What specs? What mods? Whats their printing process?
All these questions need answering, the material being used is but one small piece of a larger puzzle that is making a 3d printed object not absolute shit.
I’d rather make my own then trust some random person knows what they are doing…
the number of people doing homemade manufacturing with say, a CNC milling maching that cost 300,000 is almost zero. but the number of people selling their plastic trinkets from a $500 ender pro is a lot higher.
as soon as i see something for sale thats 3D printed, my gut feeling says “avoid”
Yeah, I don’t necessarily agree (broadly) with @keklord on inherent low qualities of 3D manufacturing, I would pay for stuff I’ve designed and printed… But I also think it missed the price point and looked like it needed to be polished a little more aesthetically. Would want it to be in petg at a minimum too, but abs more. Getting magazines to work is crazy hard, so kudos there. Really, should have been around $20 mark. Which would still get more than 100% mark-up in profit. Anyway, my 2c.
Can 100% see where your coming from keklord, I apologise that I have been away for so long. I am back in town though now and back into it. To start with quality, I have gone through over $500 alone in plastic and parts through testing and development along with over 9 months of designing, testing, breaking and then fixing what I’ve found. The material used is PETG due to the flexibility and temperature resistance. ABS was found to be too brittle through the FDM 3D printing process as compared to injection moulded parts. I have spent the past 6 years toying and learning to 3D Print aswell as designing but that is the limit of my experience. I have however been an avid licensed shooter for over 10 years so know all about the respect needed when dealing with firearms and their parts. With these magazines, I find there to be a very low change of a catastrophic failure resulting in damage or harm both because of the low powered ammunition used and the fact that misfeeds in rimfire seldom result in a misfire or weapon damage. Worst case scenario in my opinion is a jammed magazine that wont feed or a jammed firearm that your trained to handle safely as a requirement when you applied for your firearms license. It doesn’t negate the fact that this is still a homemade plastic part and you should always be mindful of any unsafe potential hazards.
Print details are 0.4mm nozzle, 0.24mm layer thickness, 15 hour print time using 1.75mm PETG filament on (as was mentioned before) an Ender 3 V2. Setting are far more important than print quality in most situations but a $1500 printer is a little outside most peoples budgets when starting out in my opinion.
Happy to explain further you any questions but hope this address some of your current concerns.
Not as of the moment sorry, I work out of town so havent made any more recently. Youll probably be the last ill send out for testing but will let you know when ive got some more ready if you like?
Looks pretty much stock (more or less)… 15 rounder, 1.5 - 6 scope and a bipod, that’s about it.
Was trying to mount an under-barrel grenade launcher, but it got a bit front heavy, and the neighbors complained about the unexplained craters in their driveway, so I had to take it off to avoid paying the concreter.
Still going good, haven’t taken the A22 out for a while.
Last time it was starting to have some feeding difficulties which I suspect was more due to the rifle needing a clean.
