Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38863250-20190324182829/@comment-38863250-20190325135855

Elliottw wrote: Well hello ! Good to hear from you. I hope all is well and your studies are progressing.

Glad you like your Apollo. ..

So I'm really interested in your 3D printing experience (even if it was a flop). . . So any info would be good.

Welcome back ! Thanks, it's a fun place. I'll be sorta low-key around, I suppose; I like this place. Just halfway thru my first semester at college so far, which is pretty neat.

The Apollo is fun, I think I'll enjoy using it. A local church is running a monthly Nerf war/fundraiser thing and there tends to be a lot of HIR's bouncing off the walls there. So I figured I needed to try one, since I'm still running mainly my trusty old AT and  modded Firestrike.

TBH, 3d printing is pretty sweet. It's just that we got a crummy printer. However, my brother did manage to get some decent 7 shot Hammershot cylinders out of it before we ran into some technical dificulties. . .  I've never messed with it too much, being even more old-school than most old-schoolers, but I think my brother willl probably get it going again.

In conclusion, I would encourage you to keep looking into it, as an engineer, I think you'd have a blast with it. Just do your research on what model of printer you wanna get. Be sure to check out that 3d printing Nerf group on Facebook. Also, it's entirely possible that your local library might have a printer. It's a growing trend. It'll be badly maintained and likely outdated, but still worth messing around with.