3D Printed Titanium Ultralight Scope mounts by EAW - Ernst Apel

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EAW has launched a new ultralight titanium mount in a Generative AI Bionic design and this is the first one to arrive in Canada. Its heading out west to mate up to a Tangent Theta.

Absolutely stunning.

100% made by EAW (Ernst Apel GmbH) in Germany.










 
Bare said:
That’s very cool. I didn’t know you could 3d print with titanium.
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DMLS - Direct Metal Laser Sintering: A fine layer of metal powder is deposited on a very flat surface, and a high power laser melts the areas that need to be solid. Then another super thin layer of metal powder is applied, and the process repeated, slice by slice, until you end up with a fully formed piece. The technology is really cool. Plastics were a common material for this, but in the last 15 years or so, I've had a chance to print in steel, brass, stainless steel, aluminum, and titanium. I'm looking for an excuse to print in inconel 718 but I don't have any clients that need parts in that alloy yet.
 
Bare said:
That’s very cool. I didn’t know you could 3d print with titanium.
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Coming soon to a household near you.

It's no wonder the Liberals want to control the internet ASAP. Home based 3d sintering is right around the corner, and it would render ALL gun control moot.
 
3D Printed in metal is nuts. Here is an extreme example of what's possible from Bugatti... the worlds first 3D printed titanium brake caliper... it shows testing at crazy temperatures. Cool technology to say the least. Your imagination is the only limiting factor of what's possible. I think its a bit overkill for my Tacoma though lol

 
The flow-through suppressors for SIG's NGSW winner are also 3d printed. Allows for complexity not possible with conventional methods, or so they say.
 
B said:
The flow-through suppressors for SIG's NGSW winner are also 3d printed. Allows for complexity not possible with conventional methods, or so they say.
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All kinds of crazy stuff being printed. AI software came up with the design of this engine within minutes and and was printed within days.

“It was engineered completely in Hyperganic Core using advanced software algorithms and has never seen a single piece of manual CAD. It’s likely the most complex AM part ever produced — it broke all conventional workflows.”

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Bare said:
That’s very cool. I didn’t know you could 3d print with titanium.
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You can print a wide array of metals, but the printers themselves cost a pretty penny. For most people it'd be more cost effective to mill it. Here's hoping in the next decade or so we see cheap hobbyist metal 3D printers hit the market.
 
Metal 3d printers aren’t all that expensive when you compare them to some CnC machine. The price i found for the markforge metal x ranges from $100k-$200k for the whole setup. Its some cool stuff because you can have internal chambers or paths that you wouldn’t be able to do from conventional milling and sig sauer is taking advantage of that with their suppressors. There are also businesses out there that will metal print for you if you supply the CAD file but its pretty costly

 
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