• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

There aren't too many arguers here, though, luckily.

I made the mistake of letting my heart rule my head yesterday when I dropped in to "t'other place" and got entangled with our old friend(?) Jacob and his disciples - all pronouncing "Tosh!", "never did me any harm!" and generally just being t1ts. Thank God they don't frequent over here; I'd be tempted to investigate printing an offensive weapon...
 
I printed this a couple of days ago, but thought I'd wait for the forum update before posting the photos...

A very simple PETG measuring jug with a small lip at the height to which it should be filled.

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I made this for mixing up Mike's Magic Mix: I use a litre bottle to hold it (although I've just ordered some StopLoss bags, so I'll probably switch to them when they arrive), so I figured that a 300 ml measuring jug would be handy for mixing it up (the extra 100 ml in the litre bottle allows for a bit leftover from the last batch).

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I tested it by zeroing the scales with the jug on and then filling it with water to the line. 299 g - that's good enough for me!

I made it with fairly thick (3 mm) walls as I have a habit of dropping things in the workshop and I figured it might make it more likely to survive.
 
A little holder for a side-rebate plane:

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... and a little stand to hold my phone upright and out-of-the-way:

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One of the reasons I like hand-tool woodwork is I can have music on in the background while I plane stuff (no ear defenders needed!) and it's nice to have the phone out so I can see what's playing:

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The 3D-printer has been working overtime for the last few days making me a new little drawer unit that looks like this:

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It's screwed into the shelf above. The bottom drawer has lots of screwdriver bits:

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The middle one has hex-shank drills:

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The top one has miscellaneous related clutter:

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What's slightly unusual about it (and which took a bit of thinking about) is that the drawers are captive but able to tilt, so when they're fully open, they look like this:

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That means I can use that long 3D-printed strip at the top for storing screwdrivers in a more compact way than before but still see what's in the drawers when they're open:

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The design wasn't perfect: I needed to tweak the height of the drawers slightly, but it was close enough that I just did that with a block plane rather than bothering reprinting!
 
I don't know why you just don't go the whole hog, and 3D print the Tardis. With far more kit than me, and far less space, Tardis is about your only hope!
 
The 3D-printer has been working overtime for the last few days making me a new little drawer unit that looks like this:

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It's screwed into the shelf above. The bottom drawer has lots of screwdriver bits:

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The middle one has hex-shank drills:

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The top one has miscellaneous related clutter:

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What's slightly unusual about it (and which took a bit of thinking about) is that the drawers are captive but able to tilt, so when they're fully open, they look like this:

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That means I can use that long 3D-printed strip at the top for storing screwdrivers in a more compact way than before but still see what's in the drawers when they're open:

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The design wasn't perfect: I needed to tweak the height of the drawers slightly, but it was close enough that I just did that with a block plane rather than bothering reprinting!
I am impressed with that. I have been wondering what to do with all the screwdriver hex bits I have. I was wondering about seeing if I could do something with gridfinity or the like in one of my drawers, but not got there yet.
 
Impressive but far too organised for me Dr.Al😂 I make do with a. collection of old 'baccy tins and muzak of any sort got kicked into the long grass years ago - Rob
 
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