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What's your most practical 3D print?

cstanton
cstanton over 6 years ago

 

I'm sure it's up for debate how practical an oversized 20 sided die is, though it's created a lot of conversation in the office here and has brought out all of the tabletop roleplayers to be interested in 3D printing - showing again that there are many crossovers in the interests of technology and traditional interests and gaming.

 

What's your most practical 3D print?

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  • genebren
    genebren over 6 years ago +7
    I originally became interested in 3D printing to assist in the building of robotics projects ans simple cases for various projects. So far, here are some samples of these types of projects: Gene
  • dougw
    dougw over 6 years ago +7
    You ask the hardest questions... The 3D printer has really liberated me to design many useful items that cannot be bought. My 3D print directory has over 1000 files in it in 17 subdirectories and many…
  • andywest
    andywest over 6 years ago +7
    Like Fred27 , my most practical designs are simple and boring. For example, a clip to keep the kitchen trash bag from falling into the trash can: and a hinge pin doorstop spacer:
  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 6 years ago in reply to andywest

    I see yours have a plastic thing on one side, mine have rubber both sides.

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 6 years ago in reply to dougw

    I've done a Quick Connect(QC) adapter as well I did notice that after a lot of use the angled pieces that the head attaches to tends to flatten out so it's worth making sure that that bit is solid without infill

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 6 years ago in reply to dougw

    O yeah which Lumix is that ??? Is it an FZ1000?

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  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 6 years ago in reply to andywest

    That Spacer came out nice .... Something that should be asked here is how long did the owner have to spend cleaning up the waste and support materials in order to release the finished product?

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  • dougw
    dougw over 6 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Yes - FZ1000 - very happy with it.

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  • apn201
    apn201 over 6 years ago

    I designed this spare part to fix East-German Christmas lights from the eighties.


    https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2858245 image

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  • danielw
    danielw over 6 years ago in reply to andywest

    Hinge pin doorstops! Never seen these before! Awesome

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