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Onoff
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A jig in PLA for my brother to cut 3mm square silver bar.
A little rough on top but should be OK. Needs a couple of longer M3 screws to lock the workpiece. M3 heat inserts pushed in with a soldering iron.
A little rough on top but should be OK. Needs a couple of longer M3 screws to lock the workpiece. M3 heat inserts pushed in with a soldering iron.
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A quick 50mm cube for cross drilling 25mm conduit. Red PLA. I've a bunch of odd 5.5mm dia steel bars to act as keys into the concrete. This for my apple scratter. Has an M8 thread for a locking bolt.
What do we search for. LolNow I've got lots of sharp 5/8" slot mills I need a way of storing them.
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Design from Thingiverse the same person has designs for smaller and bigger holders so my printer will be busy
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Sorry should have linked it
5/8" End Mill Holder by BobaPhatt79
5/8" End mill holder with corner radii to help bed adhesion.
www.thingiverse.com
Note his STL is in inches so if your slicer is metric you'll have to multiply sizes by 25.4
He has quite a few different designs.
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So 1/2" end mill holder print failed due to my Dishwasher blowing up and tripping the main breaker 
Half finished print on right.
Prusa slicer allows you to split a print into two parts so I split it at the height of the failed print. Then re-sliced the remainder and got the print on the left.
Some assembly required
Half finished print on right.
Prusa slicer allows you to split a print into two parts so I split it at the height of the failed print. Then re-sliced the remainder and got the print on the left.
Some assembly required
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Waffle press?
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I personally wouldn't use plastics in food production, you're bound to end up with significant contamination, especially with a grinder.
The "teeth" don't contact each other so only the items being ground down into smaller amounts, easier than spending 10m manually crushing between fingers.
Plus plenty of plastics inside you already anyway https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health
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Indeed. Plastic has entered the food chain. In the longer term, humanity is doomed.
However, two wrongs do not make a right. If you test this grinder, you will discover the corners will round off and the teeth will wear down. Where do you suppose all of that worn off plastic will end up?
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In the short term yes but some organisms have evolved to "eat" plastic:
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In the short term yes but some organisms have evolved to "eat" plastic:
I am familiar with that development. It won't help. Firstly these newly evolved organisms merely break down polymers into monomers, it's still a molecule of plastic. Secondly, it takes ages for them to "digest" even trace amounts and finally, they are currently only able to break down PET which is only one of multiple plastic types we are currently dumping into our oceans.
One would hope science will be able to capitalise on this bizarre mutation and develop it further. Until then, the future looks bleak as our obsession with single use plastic increases at an exponential rate...
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Even though the Bridgeport has a variable head i wanted the VFD controller easy to hand and mounted remotely but its got and awkward mounting clip so needs a holder god knows how tricky to make this would be make any other way.
20mins on Tinkercad for a rough design to test the fit and 3hrs later a prototype
display fitted like a glove but needed an extra hole in the back to push it out if needed and some lugs to hold it in the the 3mm thick case
I can upload to Thingyverse if anyone interested
20mins on Tinkercad for a rough design to test the fit and 3hrs later a prototype
display fitted like a glove but needed an extra hole in the back to push it out if needed and some lugs to hold it in the the 3mm thick case
I can upload to Thingyverse if anyone interested
