Steve of the Firearm Blog asked someone to try it, and on their home unit, that’s presumably a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic, the results weren’t quite as good. We found ABS is a pretty poor materia...
https://www.pagunblog.com/2011/10/12/more-on-that-3d-printed-ar-15-magazine/
It’s only a five rounder, but it would seem other people are getting the idea. In our project to make a 30 round magazine for an M11 submachine gun, we found that the ABS plastic the Makerbot u...
https://www.pagunblog.com/2011/09/27/3d-printed-ar-magazine/
If you’re following here after seeing my interview on PJTV, you can find all the posts related to our 3D printed magazine project here. Related posts: First PJTV Interview What We’ve Been U...
https://www.pagunblog.com/2011/05/11/welcome-instapundit-readers/
I speak for a bit with Professor Glenn Reynolds about 3D printed magazines, among other things. For those who are interested in the project, you can explore the category here. The one thing I hat...
Just so you know, we haven’t forgotten about it. Things have gotten busy, and since we’re at the point we need to field test it, that means we need to find time to shoot at a mellow range. Th...
Jason tells me we’ve gotten to the point in the magazine project where we’re ready for a live fire test. There’s only one problem: we need a place where we can both shoot and film. There’...
My goal was to try to come up with a design where if you had one of these low cost ABS printers, you could just download the file, print the parts, superglue them together, add the spring, and yo...
https://www.pagunblog.com/2011/03/10/jason-on-printer-issues/
The first step in figuring out how to print a magazine on a 3D printer is deciding which magazine to make. Those of you who know the gun can probably identify the magazine showing here as being t...
https://www.pagunblog.com/2011/03/10/it-starts-with-a-design/
You might be able to guess by this conversation between my friend Jason and myself: Jason: Doh! Had a catastrophic magazine failure. Sebastian: What happened? Jason: Body came apart and rounds we...