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The Great Treat Forward: printing airplane parts in your garage

These are the people calling communists econ 101 dropouts

Can these people get any dumber? Science must know.

Doing the pig iron bit from the Great Leap Forward but it's Jethro Gramble making the aileron for your passenger jet out of an old snow shovel.

Gonna start 3d printing $500 screws for the government

I need some aviation grade aluminum.

I happen to be an aviation aluminum maker. Here you go!

Thx

"Bad news? We're absolutely doing this. Good news? Our build quality can't get that much worse and ATC is going to be so broken down it's not worth building planes to last more than a handful of flights anyway...so "

Ah yes, airworthy aluminum 3d printed, of course. Perhaps we can get the aluminum geniuses at Tesla on it.

Better yet, I've seen some YouTube videos of a guy running an aluminum forge with empty soda cans and a real big propane tank in his backyard. So they should hire me to do it.

To be fair Boeing is the one company with a less reliable more enshitified product than a consumer printer so this could actually be an improvement.

3D printing tech has done leaps and bounds over the last 5-10 years, but my understanding is that printing high quality parts takes lots of time, and hitting the same volume as injection moulding, machining etc is still not possible. Regardless of available tech, an incredible push would need to be done to develop the capacity, and that push needs to materialize yesterday. Short answer, not shot baby

All Americans know how to do is live off rentierism, make powerpoints, and go to dinner parties.

Boeing is literally falling apart at the seams and you want to seek solutions from within?

Artisan airplane manufacturers. Late stage capitalism turns into medieval guild economics, shit maybe this is neo-feudalism.

As if all 3D printers and filaments aren’t made in China today.

They can also bring down the cost of air travel by killing all the sparrows causing birdstrike.

we're going to get Abundance with AI powered 3D printing with no infrastructure, supply chains or labor involved

Guys can you bootstrap a national economy with a basement full of Dremel Digilabs?

Pig iron plane manufacturing

3d printed plane parts, what could go wrong?

Maybe, but even if we did reshore it, Boeing is still likely going to be losing money compared to Airbus, as american manufacturing is notorious for being expensive. The cost of manufacturing out of a garage is likely prohibitively expensive, as the difficult part isn't necessarily doing the manufacturing, but making sure the part is made to quality standards, something that the manufacturer is financially responsible for. Most garage manufacturers aren't going to be used to holding the tolerances needed for Boeing. If they were, Boeing likely would already be doing it.

"It's a YYUUGE leap forward folks." -

i guess i'm just never flying again if it means flying on a plane with 3d printed parts

Don protecting Americans by puttting Boeing out of business.

3d printing is the AI of construction techniques, in that idiots think it can do everything. (Previously it was 6axis cnc holding that particular crown). Sure it’s got its use cases but 99 times out of 100 it’s much better to use traditional manufacturing processes.

This guy is probably a partner at a 3rd rate venture capital firm

Yea man! does line of coke I can print you plane parts to aviation standards! No big deal my man! Why has no one thought of this before?!

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Armchair logisticians need to learn to sit down and shut the fuck up or go to gulag