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1st September 2018, 03:52 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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3D print draws blood solving 1st world problem.
My daughter brought home some woodwork parts to sand, and I asked what grit she had got to at school, but she said they just have to use whatever belt is on the sander.
So I thought that the world needs a simple "belt grit indicator" ...
Designed in OpenSCAD, printed on my Aldi 3D printer, and while adjusting the friction fit of the slide, I found that a 3D-printed number "40" can draw blood IMG_20180901_140144.jpgIMG_20180901_135831.jpgIMG_20180901_135802.jpgIMG_20180901_133011.jpg
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1st September 2018, 11:22 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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That's a nifty little device. You could be on a winner there, I can see a demand for something like that.
How much would one cost to buy, as I'd really like one, maybe even more, preferably without the sharp edges.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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2nd September 2018, 12:15 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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I never even knew there was a 140 grit paper
Apologies for unnoticed autocomplete errors.
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2nd September 2018, 10:28 AM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Oops! I just used a loop to generate and position the text, rather than doing each label individually - I didn't do any research into grits available (and I've only changed the belt on the sander once so the whole exercise was rather frivolous overkill).
As a result of your post, I've spent far too much time googling sandpaper grits, grit specifications, the 3 (or 4) common rating systems, and am now off to do V2 (with 150 instead of 140), and V3 (with "Coarse", "Medium" and "Fine")
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2nd September 2018, 04:54 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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I also think your application is terrific. It may be the only genuinely useful application of home-based 3d printing I’ve ever seen.
I think V2 works for me. The problem with V3 is that terms like “fine” are subjective. I think of “fine” as being 600 and over, but others will think differently.
Ps in case 600 grit on a linisher sounds unlikely, I have belts for a linisher like yours up to 800 grit - which I bought from a knife making supplier - and they are actually quite useable.
Now you are making me wonder what I could do with a 3d printer. Or do I really have room for another machine in the shed?
Cheers
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18th September 2018, 10:46 AM #6
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20th September 2018, 05:25 AM #7GOLD MEMBER
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20th September 2018, 11:52 PM #8
I want to see pictures of this so-called "full shed".
Id wager heavily I could find room with some careful re-arranging.
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On another seemingly amazing serendipitous coincidence, a person (hereby known as Evil MIL) broke her vertical blind on Monday. A 60 year old POS metal horror. Nobody, and I mean nobody, carried the parts for it. It was all four of the centring pulleys for the strings. Time, sun and friction had finally ablated them to dust. HAD I HAD a 3D printer it would have been trivial to print up new runners and pulleys in ABS and had it operational in an afternoon.... instead the Blind Company came, took it away, hacked in a fix (rough as GUTS) and charged her $280 for the privilege....
THERE is another reason 3D printing should be at least in 1 in 10 houses
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