3d Printing and the Future of Piracy

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Haus said:
OK. Starting my next set of prints. This will be to print a form to then sand cast in metal. (First test run will be aluminum, and then if that works brass) Who doesn't want to make their own maul?
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I'll print two of these (they can connect via peg holes on the bottom). Then probably a day or two of post work with auto body paint/filler and sanding to get as smooth as possible, then multiple coats of gloss enamel to get smoother. (Smoother the mold form, the less you need to sand/polish the metal when done which is far more work).

Then pack is in casting sand, remove the mold to leave a cavity, and melt/pour in metal.

When all is said and done this should be around a 7lb head to put on a hickory handle probably. And sure, you can say "But why the hell do you need a 7lb maul that looks like an art deco hark head??!?" but I'll ignore you because I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.
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This is awesome. Can't wait to see the finished product.

I did some pretty basic metal casting not too long ago. I 3D printed some numbers, then took a bunch of copper pipes that my sister had ripped out of her new house when they remodeled it. I cast her house numbers in copper and then put them in a little epoxy cube and put it on a plaque for a housewarming gift. I've mad a ton of ingots that are just sitting around for some future project. Unfortunately, smelting/casting is really rough in the Florida heat, so it's rare I find the motivation.
 
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This is awesome. Can't wait to see the finished product.

I did some pretty basic metal casting not too long ago. I 3D printed some numbers, then took a bunch of copper pipes that my sister had ripped out of her new house when they remodeled it. I cast her house numbers in copper and then put them in a little epoxy cube and put it on a plaque for a housewarming gift. I've mad a ton of ingots that are just sitting around for some future project. Unfortunately, smelting/casting is really rough in the Florida heat, so it's rare I find the motivation.
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I've done a number plaque too, did one for my grandmother's house. Yeah, I'm in Texas so it's the same heat scenario. I recently rebuild my "smelting area" behind the garage and put in a shade awning/tarp thing.

I thought I had worked through the details on the maul, but I'm starting to notice I think by the time I put the two halves together it's going to be too large for the amount of metal I can melt at once in my crucible. Might have to do it scaled back on at least one axis to make the maul head skinnier.
 
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This is a github project I stumbled across today which I am keenly interested in seeing come to fruition...

PartCrafter

PartCrafter is a structured 3D generative model that jointly generates multiple parts and objects from a single RGB image in one shot.
wgsxm.github.io wgsxm.github.io

TLDR: AI Model to design multi part 3d printable parts off photos.
 
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Haus said:
This is a github project I stumbled across today which I am keenly interested in seeing come to fruition...

PartCrafter

PartCrafter is a structured 3D generative model that jointly generates multiple parts and objects from a single RGB image in one shot.
wgsxm.github.io wgsxm.github.io

TLDR: AI Model to design multi part 3d printable parts off photos.
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Wonder what this will take to run locally.
 
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