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Tecumseh_S64 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sure. Though that may be inadvisable for material properties reasons that are tricky to explain. I'll put it this way: dyes affect plastics in different ways. Having too much of an effect relative to another material in the same part will make it fail very quickly.

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

You may. I have not printed any firearms myself, but I am a published author in the realm of 3D printing. At minimum I will know where to send you.

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

Don't forget to look into how to anneal parts after printing them.

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

There is a man who goes by the handle of CtrlPew. His guides will show you the way.

tl;dr they're impressively cheap but you should pay attention to some of the minutia in their specs.

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Tecumseh_S64 6 points ago +6 / -0

No, but some degree of separation is sensible with how touchy people can be these days. If you search for the name 'AWCY CZ Scorpion' on duckduckgo, you will find all of it.

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Tecumseh_S64 2 points ago +2 / -0

duckduckgo, AWCY CZ Scorpion. Their readme will tell you more specifics but PLA once annealed is very tough.

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Tecumseh_S64 4 points ago +4 / -0

Whole thing, minus the bolt, barrel, and a few other bits. Here's the full component view: https://i.imgur.com/AQtNFYq.png

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Tecumseh_S64 4 points ago +4 / -0

Printed semi-automatic CZ Scorpion. If you're unfamiliar, it's a 9mm compact weapon not too dissimilar in its role from an MP5.

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Tecumseh_S64 3 points ago +3 / -0

Pictured: AWCY dev group's CZ Scorpion in bronze filament, plus some off-the-shelf metal gibbets to handle the worst mechanical and thermal stresses. One FFL-holder tested all the components with a licensed automatic receiver and not a single thing failed with around 1400 shots in a couple hours.

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Tecumseh_S64 3 points ago +3 / -0

They are rather bad at hiding themselves. We already have the whole Portland network mapped.

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nothing is resolved yet, but Wayne County, Michigan has failed to certify its votes with a 2-2 deadlock vote. This will continue on to another board which will meet and vote on November 23rd, which is also split with Two Democrats and Two Republicans. If that vote is deadlocked as well, the state's electors (or the option to not send electors at all) will be chosen by the Michigan Legislature. The Michigan Legislature is majority Republican.

Elsewhere, counties in Georgia keep finding more votes in favor of Trump, and in Nevada they have so many flaws in one precinct that it looks like they're trying to toss about 150k votes around Las Vegas.

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Tecumseh_S64 2 points ago +2 / -0

Big Tech's Dumb Robot: "Here is the evidence because I was programmed to cache high-interest websites every five minutes"

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

Fixed price contracting is what held rocket technology back so much

Oldspace refused to do almost anything aside from Cost-Plus. Even with Fixed Price on CST-1000, Boeing wringed a few hundred million extra out of NASA to deliver what remains a nonfunctional vehicle likely until the end of 2021.

The thing was SpaceX hasn't even particularly innovated a massive amount

In terms of engines or flight structures, no. In terms of techniques and control systems, very much yes.

A lot of those defence contractors could have done what they have decades ago if they had wanted

And here we are, with SpaceX doing it and neither Lockheed nor Boeing really trying for much beyond catching the engines and avionics package of their next-gen vehicle that hasn't flown once over five years after SpaceX managed to land a first stage intact.

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes. And as the marvel-obsessed would say it will be America's ASS. Though that's pretty redundant.

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Tecumseh_S64 3 points ago +3 / -0

Sure, but with that knowledge (AND FIXED-PRICE CONTRACTING) we can do it for a fraction of what it once cost. The new station is also going to be a lot more easily maintained, the odds and ends that wear out are being made more accessible on the Axios modules. The core of this station will hit end-of-life in the 2050s.

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Tecumseh_S64 7 points ago +7 / -0

We're going to build the successor station over the next few years starting docked at the ISS, and it's US-centric. It's going to be privately operated too, so its operating costs will be 10% of what the ISS costs now.

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Tecumseh_S64 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, here's a horrifying thing for you to consider: your ballots are run through Dominion machines. Unless you're counting them physically after the election, you have no idea whether that machine actually counted your vote. That appears to be what some of our initial pockets are turning up: they reported information quite different from the physical ballots that were inspected.

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