Files for Ghost gunner

[Big-chuck]

The Guys at DD turned out to be huge Dick heads ! they promise open source files say your will get log in credentials for there web forum where more files can be sourced none of that happened no web forum , not files they talk about alternative engraving programs fire control variations all bull **** .
When you call them on there Bull **** they try to say your request violated there terms of use they are just paranoid *** holes don't waste your money like I did just do a little research add another $500 and get a machine with way more potential .
If anyone can help me who actually did receive alternate files for 1911 frames , engraving fire control pocket variations I will happily purchase the files anyone who has read the user manual knows what files I am taking about if perhaps they did actually deliver what they promised at one time and you received the files please let me know
Thanks so much for any help sorry to come off so negative I have just been treated so poorly by this company and Cody personally when I spent my $ to support them

Chuck

[SonofWWIIDI]

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[Sapperforward]

I was seriously thinking about purchasing one long go. I decided to hold out until the machine could do something until it could at least do something other than just mill 80% Ar15 receivers. Nothing ever materialized as far as I could see so I never purchased.

I hope some day you get what you want but as far as I am aware they have never released any additional software or plans.

[xXRifleManXx]

Fire control pocket variations?.....

[keenkeen]

I have all the files you need. $500 each.

Just let me know.

[heidad01]

What is DD??

[keenkeen]

What is DD??

Defense Distributed.

[heidad01]

Defense Distributed.

Thanks KeenKeen.

I looked it up. Kind of weired the way the guy explains it. Why would any one want to invest in all that equipment to print a plastic/composite AR lower that you can by for $40 bucks or a 1911 lower/frame that sells for around $200 is beyond me, cause I have no need for a composite gun printed in a garage that can go Kaboom on the first round. And certainly no need to work around any laws.
Besides, unless if it is for the kick of doing something novel, why 3D print a plastic gun part where and when that same part made of tool steel or Alum can readily be bought for next to nothing here in the US of A. This must be a scam to sell the very expensive 3D printers and the more expensive supplies that go with it.

As for getting code to machine a part, one can buy, rent, or somehow use a 3D scanner. Any part can be scanned in 3D and the machine code is generated by the software that comes with the scanner or purchased separately. Great. Now you have your code. Load your Mazak or Haas mill with some bar stock of your choice (steel, Alum, Brass, even plastic/polymer) and feed the code to the mill. Depending on the part and the complexity, you will have a finished part in less than 30 minutes. Again, very expensive 3D scanner and a mighty expensive 3 or 4 Axis mill to produce a part that can be bought with free shipping to your door (most cases) for next to nothing.

Just my .02 cents on 3D printing guns and gun parts.

[Jimi Jah]

DD to me means Daniel Defense.

[Mitch]

Thanks KeenKeen.

I looked it up. Kind of weired the way the guy explains it. Why would any one want to invest in all that equipment to print a plastic/composite AR lower that you can by for $40 bucks or a 1911 lower/frame that sells for around $200?

That's a question for the OP.

I always thought of DD as more of a political operation, trying to make dramatic political points about liberty and gun control. I assumed most DD customers were not really gun people, but like-minded folks who wanted to make political statements of their own.

Gun people who want to get into the 80% game have a lot of better options.

[Big-chuck]

The web site and manual that comes with the machine talks about programs that are on the web forum for Skeletonizing lowers , engraving programs to engrave different model number creating a replica m16 a1 for example , I read that there was a program to complete a 80% 1911 frame by stealth arms .

It said that login credentials would be shipped with each ghost gunner where buyers could share files etc , basically its a very basic CNC machine , I own easy jigs and stealth Arms phantom jigs I am fully aware or all the options I purchased the unit to support a Ideal and because the promised expansion of future "open source" files might be very interesting .

The majority of 80% Billet "gun people" buy are produced from slightly more advanced versions of the same technology .

Its not for printing a plastic 3D gun it will finish a 80% lower very well I am just a bit pissed because promises were made about a community that was sharing files and support resources that simply does not exist .
SOnofW
Yes I have 7 posts ? does that make what I have to say less valuable to the community ?
Did anyone here ever have access to the web forum ? obviously when you pay $1500 for something you would like to get all the data that exist

Thanks for the constructive dialogue

Chuck

PS here a link to someone taking about the same subject matter

http://weaponsman.com/?p=19734

[Bansh88]

Must be an inside thread. No idea what is going on here

[j-shot]

Must be an inside thread. No idea what is going on here

In a nut shell, insert your 80% lower. Outcomes a stripped lower.

https://www.ghostgunner.net/

[Mitch]

What this thread suggests is that DD are better at being political gadflies than an actual business. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it's basically just Cody Wilson running everything himself.

I think we all support what he's doing and the points he's making, but I guess political activists don't necessarily make good businessmen.

[Sapperforward]

Thanks KeenKeen.

I looked it up. Kind of weired the way the guy explains it. Why would any one want to invest in all that equipment to print a plastic/composite AR lower that you can by for $40 bucks or a 1911 lower/frame that sells for around $200 is beyond me, cause I have no need for a composite gun printed in a garage that can go Kaboom on the first round. And certainly no need to work around any laws.
Besides, unless if it is for the kick of doing something novel, why 3D print a plastic gun part where and when that same part made of tool steel or Alum can readily be bought for next to nothing here in the US of A. This must be a scam to sell the very expensive 3D printers and the more expensive supplies that go with it.

As for getting code to machine a part, one can buy, rent, or somehow use a 3D scanner. Any part can be scanned in 3D and the machine code is generated by the software that comes with the scanner or purchased separately. Great. Now you have your code. Load your Mazak or Haas mill with some bar stock of your choice (steel, Alum, Brass, even plastic/polymer) and feed the code to the mill. Depending on the part and the complexity, you will have a finished part in less than 30 minutes. Again, very expensive 3D scanner and a mighty expensive 3 or 4 Axis mill to produce a part that can be bought with free shipping to your door (most cases) for next to nothing.

Just my .02 cents on 3D printing guns and gun parts.

Your confused. The ghost gunner is a CNC machine. Not a 3d printer. It does all the milling on your 80 percent lowers, turning them into stripped lowers. No plastic, polymer or printing of parts at all involved unless you are staring with a polymer 80 percent lower that you milling into a stripped lower.

The files he needs were promised by the company 12-18 months ago so you could mill something other than just an ar15 80 percent receivers. The files to do machine 1911 80 percent receivers never came and most likely never will.

They left the ghost gunner as open source so anyone with these type of skills could potentially create the files themselves and than post them to the web. It is not as simple as 3d scanning an existing receiver to create the milling file as you suggest. If it was everyone would be doing it already.

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