Comment Re:barrel separates? (Score 1) 280
However when correctly printed and supervised, it can work for many rounds.
Consider that nearly every type of wood is stronger than this plastic and then revise your answer.
There are far easier ways to make much stronger non-metallic tubes than using a 3D printer anyway. Think of fishing rods or carbon fibre reinforced plastic tubing in bicycles for a start - no polymer printer can make anything close to the strength of such composites that can be as easy as winding a thread onto a stick in a tray full of resin.