Market for 3d printed mags?

[sonofeugene]

This has been my experience as well.

The company I was working for spent some bucks on the objet 260 they bought. We would use the printer for product development and then injection mold the parts for production. The printer was absolutely amazing though, well worth the money! Objet came out with the color version right after we bought ours.

Some vendor chimped out on me on here when I said 3D printing isn't good for production...by the look of their products, they're using a fairly cheap printer. Also, I saw what they were charging. For a part like that, you could mold it for a few cents maybe a dollar a piece.

'Course you have to consider the cost of the mold as well. For a lot of what I do, I use Protomold. Soft tooling (aluminum) and some other limitations, but generally good enough for production. At least first generation. A simple single vector pull mold will run 2-4000 on the average. Parts in the range of 1-2 dollars depending upon size and material.

[spddrcr]

I bought a DIY 3d printer a couple months back. the first thing I made was magazine base-plates and they work great. the best thing I have made so far are magazine pouches for action pistol / USPSA style shooting. they look great and you can't tell the difference between the real thing and the ABS printed ones I made.

I would never use a 3d printed magazine though, I cant imagine it would hold up.