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One of the first prints I made - with my old Anet A8 - Was a foot bar for our corner cabinet in the kitchen. When I built out our kitchen 10 years ago (I made all the cabinets myself as well as all the other renovation work ) I was going to machine/fabricate a custom pull for the corner cabinet, where we keep the trash can. I never got around to making anything from metal; Instead my wife & I would just pull the cabinet open from below, using the foot. This went on for years while I castigated myself for not making a nice metal pull. But then it occurred to me that it is way easier to open the trash with a foot! So one of the first prints I made was to make a custom "foot pull" for the cabinet. Pictured here is maybe the 3rd generation....

Shield for thread on coilover. White part is flex material.
5 years no the car. Canada salty winter. "Vortex generator", less drag, more speed.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it Hand free cellphone dissemble. Easier to change battery. Dual extruder mount. WRX STi RA-R emblem, dual color. 3D Mouse carrying case:

Some COVID supply: With pull test:

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:00 am
"Vortex generator", less drag, more speed.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it

Love the Phone dis-assembly fixture.

"Vortex Generator" is Glued on?

Here R a few others:

Marshall Wilson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:55 pm
"Vortex Generator" is Glued on?

"Automotive securing device"
Mounting tape.

last thing I printed was a Star Wars chess set. What a pain it was to print all those pieces. Set it up to run a 28 hour print as things were going well and as the printer was getting closer to the end of the prints it started to make more sounds and someone thought that was not good and turned it off. Estimate was that there was only about an hour or 2 left to finish it and the way it was shut down there was no recovery option.

@David Matula,
Cura has a print one piece at a time setting. I've had your similar problem before and since I discovered that, I always use that setting for large prints of items.
A guy over on youtube has a bunch of great tips like that. His channel is CHEP https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdc_0 ... FEn2dRDJhg

David Matula wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:17 pm last thing I printed was a Star Wars chess set. What a pain it was to print all those pieces. Set it up to run a 28 hour print as things were going well and as the printer was getting closer to the end of the prints it started to make more sounds and someone thought that was not good and turned it off. Estimate was that there was only about an hour or 2 left to finish it and the way it was shut down there was no recovery option.

What a huge pain. I think my Prusa has a recover option where it will start where it left off if power is disconnected etc. Luckily I've never had to use it though.

For some reason I can't see pictures of any of the cool stuff you guys are printing. So here's one of my prints, maybe I'll learn something about posting and viewing pictures here.

Forum had a crash and lost photos.
Fixed.

Was going to post some pictures but can't figure this out on my phone.

Replacement air airvent/adjuster for a cessna, out of stock so we had to create a file and 3d print one.
Used a pair of cailpers to draw it in SoildWhy

Retro fit LED fog to stock bracket

A co-worker will be printing this Router Guard - hopefully next week

FMAAID wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 3:49 pm Replacement air airvent/adjuster for a cessna, out of stock so we had to create a file and 3d print one.
Used a pair of cailpers to draw it in SoildWhy

I'd like to see your FAR Part 21 certification on that.

lol, not applicable due to R & R

That is how we replace entire aircraft interiors, we must take the old cover, leather, carpet, ect and replace with materials that meet or exceed currrent config.

Good one tho, not a lot of aerospace guys here.

seatbelt pass thru for racing seats( not for aviation)

snaps together once assembled on seat. Printed in polycarb @270 nozzle and 105 bed

UV resin and a clear coat hide the print lines.

I bought a cheap bandsaw off of Amazon. It did well enough for wood, but I wanted to be able to cut metal with it. I printed a bigger pulley and ordered a longer belt. It allowed me to cut stainless this weekend, although the blade was dead by the end. I think I need to go one step bigger.

I've also done a bunch of toolbox organizing over the years.

Battery Organizer
Holsters for all sorts of appliances and power supplies.
24V transformer cover
The AC vents in my house were extremely noisy, so I printed a low restriction version. It helped the temperature balance in the house as well.
How about a Glock shaped bottle opener?

This is one of the most useful things I've printed. These shims go from 1/16 to 5/8 by 1/32. I use them all the time, but mainly because the people who built this house didn't own a level, or even a straight edge.

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:07 pm This is one of the most useful things I've printed. These shims go from 1/16 to 5/8 by 1/32. I use them all the time, but mainly because the people who built this house didn't own a level, or even a straight edge.

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You used the same contractor that built my house?...Should've asked me, I'd have advised you against it...

When they poured the slab, the workers must have taken the day off, and the concrete truck just dumped the load and left. There is a spot in the middle of the kitchen that is 1" higher than the low spot 8' away. It made tiling the kitchen a lot of fun.

Good, water won't puddle in the kitchen.

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:43 am Good, water won't puddle in the kitchen.

@Frederick_Law the eternal optimist...

Battery trays for organization drawers.

Orient all those batteries in the same direction and get that green one out of that tray!

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:37 pm Orient all those batteries in the same direction and get that green one out of that tray!

That's a slippery slope! If I start aligning batteries then where does the madness end?

m2shell wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:27 pm
That's a slippery slope! If I start aligning batteries then where does the madness end?

If you figure it out, please let me know.

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:59 pm If you figure it out, please let me know.

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LOL!

The screws... this was xactly what I/we did in construction remodels... yeah, totally useless but I got use to having all the screw slots vertical!
So, of course, any home I've lived in, they're vertical.
A friend of ours noticed this and twisted about 10 of them off kilter...

zxys001 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:58 pm LOL!

The screws... this was xactly what I/we did in construction remodels... yeah, totally useless but I got use to having all the screw slots vertical!
So, of course, any home I've lived in, they're vertical.
A friend of ours noticed this and twisted about 10 of them off kilter...

Yeah, a coworker leaves his house/car keyring on his desk and all the keys are oriented the same way. One day I flipped one...Sure enough the next day it was fixed.

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:59 pm If you figure it out, please let me know.

I think I prefer the screws oriented this way:

This looks like a fun and useful project..

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:59 pm If you figure it out, please let me know.

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Yup, you can tell if an electrician does good work if he orients all his screws vertically! Shows he pays attention to detail!

If Pugs could fly?

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:00 am If Pugs could fly?

That's cool! Did you model that yourself?

Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:05 pm That's cool! Did you model that yourself?

Nah, found 3D Pug and 3D Wing, boolean mesh (in Rhino3D) and a shazam new mythical breed was born.

Juneteenth Holiday

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... T63-pR300Q

Every SW user need one. Or 10.
Finally someone you can punch when SW crash.
LOL

PS
Think I'll get ban if I post this in the SWYM?

Another fog light retro fit. Stock HID only HID and LED fog

zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:56 pm This looks like a fun and useful project..

The fractal vise is a neat piece of engineering. I wasn't aware of a 3d printable version.

Here is a link to the files, if anyone else is interested.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4904044

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:59 pm If you figure it out, please let me know.

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Old post but just had to say that I had to correct the electrician's error when my house was finished years ago. Horizontal screws....yes.

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:50 pm Old post but just had to say that I had to correct the electrician's error when my house was finished years ago. Horizontal screws....yes.

All the sockets too.

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:09 pm All the sockets too.

Of course

"OCD an asset" in our job requirement.

We are working on a new machine design. The wiring guy and myself are never on the same page, so I decided to 3d print enough of the frame to sort it out IRL.