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BReeves

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Have had mine for about 3 months and have used it quite a bit. Doesn't seem to difficult for me to find something I need that the printer will make, right now it is printing a Dremel tool holder for my lathe so I will be able to use a Dremel roto tool for a tool post grinder. Made a set of brackets to mount a Sound Bar on the top of our TV and among other things a bunch of tool holders/organizers for my shop. Just saved me $40.00 by making a table insert for an old Craftsman band saw I was rebuilding plus I am making project boxes for electronic stuff I am building. Money and time well spent.

Getting good enough with DesignSpark Mechanical to be able to design some items from scratch and managed to get the printer working with both ABS and PLA. Learning curve was steep but well worth the effort.
 
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D. Hargrove said:
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Thank you VERY much D. Hargrove for the assistance. This worked out to be exactly what I needed.

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dlmcm said:
Those are nice, but what do you folks create. I'm not interested in "pintrest" for printers, show us what you make.
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In all honesty, most things people print with 3D-printer are nick-knacks. Nothing earth shattering.
But still neat, and sometimes useful.

One of my examples, my wife asked me to fix her sentimental childhood Game-Boy.
I fixed the main problem of the Game-Boy not working, and upon reassembly...
Not sure how it happened, but the power-switch toggle got lost. (yeah, 99.9% probably me)

I reversed the dimensions, and printed up a replacement power-switch toggle.
Worked like a champ. ...errr, other then the color.



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Over on a homebuilt airplane forum I haunt, there's a lengthy thread of 3D-printed projects. Lots of drag fairings, among other things...these airplanes are being pushed to north of 200-250MPH with the aid of those fairings.
 
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Funny you should bring this back up. My printer has just been sitting idle for months, didn't really need it for anything useful. The other day I decided to replace a broken handle on my old Black&Decker Workmate, a web search for a replacement found one I could make on Thingverse. This got me started again, made the handle then decided to remake the Dremel tool holder for my lathe with more infill to make it stronger. While I was at it I made a few more spacers (Spiders) for my lathe chuck. The spacers slip on the chuck jaws to position small items out where you can work while keeping the work parallel with the chuck.

Wasn't real difficult to get back up to speed after 9 or 10 months not messing with it but everything I printed was canned and I didn't have to to do any design work.

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