{"id":77,"date":"2013-10-08T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-10-08T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:20:41","slug":"change-of-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Change of Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months I have has some major setbacks on the BMP-11 project. \u00a0I printed the pistol grip area with partial success.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_79\"  class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"  ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11GripProto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79\" alt=\"Solidoodle prototype print of the BPM11 (lower middle section)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11GripProto-300x97.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11GripProto-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11GripProto-1024x333.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11GripProto.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_79\"  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solidoodle prototype print of the BPM-11 (lower middle section)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was horrible warping and some poorly adhered layers causing the part to be pretty fragile. \u00a0The trigger guard broke with just a bit on handling. \u00a0This was printed with 80% infill and took 22 hours to print. \u00a0It did prove that a shape can be printed with success and I was starting to think I would have to cast the parts. \u00a0I also let a number of people hold the part and the conclusion was the grip was not comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>I then redesigned the 3d model to have a thinner grip and more room for the web of your hand.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_78\"  class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"  ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11_v8_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78\" alt=\"3D Design of the BMP-11 version 8_04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11_v8_13-300x143.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11_v8_13-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11_v8_13-1024x488.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bpm11_v8_13.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_78\"  class=\"wp-caption-text\">3D Design of the BMP-11 version 8_04<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At this point I gave up for now. \u00a0I started reading up on California SB374, the new Assault Weapon Ban and decided to put this project on hold. \u00a0It turns out the new ban will not affect M11 type guns, but I have dozens of other kits that will need to get finished by Jan 2014. \u00a0I can get back to the BPM-11 at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>-Rob<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months I have has some major setbacks on the BMP-11 project. \u00a0I printed the pistol grip area with partial success. There was horrible warping and some poorly adhered layers causing the part to be pretty fragile. \u00a0The trigger guard broke with just a bit on handling. \u00a0This was printed with 80% infill and took 22 hours to print. \u00a0It did prove that a shape can be printed with success and I was starting to think I would have to cast the parts. \u00a0I also let a number of people hold the part and the conclusion was the grip was not comfortable. I then redesigned the 3d model to have a thinner grip and more room for the web of your hand. At this point I gave up for now. \u00a0I started reading up on California SB374, the new Assault Weapon Ban and decided to put this project on hold. \u00a0It turns out the new ban will not affect M11 type guns, but I have dozens of other kits that will need to get finished by Jan 2014. \u00a0I can get back to the BPM-11 at a later time. -Rob &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}