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For those young enough to have the time left to get new equipment and learn to use it; you might benefit from a couple you tube machinist that show various projects with casting and making molds; some with traditional pattern making, and some with 3D printed molds. A challenge would be finding metal suitable to cast gun parts from. You might check out MrPete222, Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery.org, and maybe Sand Rammer would help with mold making. This is not my "thing", but it seems to have some application to the things that interest us.
Mike

I�m pretty sure Steve, that that�s how companies like Renovators Supply duplicate all the old hardware patterns. Hinges, doors sets, what not.

My son-in-law made my daughter�s engagement ring on a 3-D printer that laser fused sintered metal. He said cost was by weight of mat�l used.

Great progress with the scanner and especially with the product output coming off the CNC. Some diehard muzzleloader folks are moving away from castings to CNC products and with a scanner setup like yours some of the fancy relief engraved Jaeger furniture could be made.

Anyway, super job using the equipment.

Nice!

Sounds like the 4-function calculator, circa 1975: already getting use and coming down in price, but not yet commodified. Give it 10 years and this will be everywhere for making custom parts, and the price will have come way down.

I think I may have confused some forum members when I posted pictures of the plastic proto-type. I simply used the plastic to test my tool paths on the mill and get an idea as to how the part would turn out. Since the last post I have added a flood coolant system to my mill greatly improving the machining aspect of things while simultaneously creating huge mess in my shop. Fix one thing create another issue. Seems about right. Anyway, the steel hammer for the left side of the gun has been. I now need to fit it up to the tumbler and test it on the gun.

Pretty neat. So now what is the value added cost of the above hammer?

Cheers,

Raimey
rse

Smooth going with the fit up. Only curious, if you scan a part, can your program create a mirror image. Say, if one hammer were missing, can it be machined off a scan of the opposite?

That is exactly what was done in this case Craig, I made the left hammer using the right hammer as a pattern. Once I imported my model of the right hammer into Solidworks (CAD program) it was a simple matter to create a mirror image of the model to create the left hammer model.

What scanner?