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purbeast0 said:
I've had it a week and it has been running non stop lol. Either toys for my kids or "3d printing stuff" like those above, and I even created a little tray in Tinkercad that we put our kids silverware in in our silverware drawer, as well as a piece to put behind our silverware tray so that it just puts something in the void of space that would make the tray slide back when you open the drawer.

I will post a pic when I'm completely finished but I am also printing a rack to store filament on and it also has drawers to store stuff in. It's modular so you can make it as little or as big as you want. I'm going 3x3 with it, and 2 of those slots have 2 drawers each.

Currently I am printing out a paper tray for my son because he loves drawing and he would just grab paper from a pack of printer paper. But I'm just going to print this paper tray for him to put on his little drawing table with all the paper in it.

Oh and I also found a 11x15 frame model I found and modified it to be 12x16 for these things my son wanted to hang on his wall, in a frame and not just the picture itself.
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www.multiboard.io

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Gridfinity Generator | Interactive tool

Easily create your own Gridfinity system with this free, interactive tool. Export your designs as STL files
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Kaido said:
www.multiboard.io

Multiboard

www.multiboard.io www.multiboard.io

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gridfinitygenerator.com

Gridfinity Generator | Interactive tool

Easily create your own Gridfinity system with this free, interactive tool. Export your designs as STL files
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Awesome thanks! I will keep that stuff in mind when I find things around the house that can benefit from this. That multiboard looks solid.

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This is the rack I am working on. I was initially going to just do 2x3 with only 2 drawers, but decided I'm going to go up another level and I'll have 4 drawers instead... for now lol. I can always keep going up too. The drawers take 5 hours to print and those bases take 3.5 each.

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Kaido said:
New multi-color budget model:

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Does that have multiple hot ends? That would be awesome. I was reading an article by a fellow who was doing multi color prints and running 85% filament waste because of purging the hot end.
 
sdifox said:
Can we expect a Damascus steel sword video from you?
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Hah. I'd love to do that, but I don't have the space for it. I built this wanting to make a pigment called YInMn Blue which needs to be baked at about 1200C for hours. This won't get there, but it will anneal glass and melt aluminum for me, plus it will be good for dying things. I need to do a redesign using bricks rated for 3000F. These are knock-off "2300F" bricks, so I'm not planning on taking it over 1000C/1800F.
 
Finally got the glassworking station set up nice and safely last night. I'd say it was worth the money...

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Just a test - it's crazy how much adding oxygen makes a difference. This was with a Smith Little Torch and propane. It can apparently handle hydrogen as a fuel and get above 6000 F, but I definitely don't need that. The next step is to get the 20lb tank hooked up to the bigger torch and see how it goes.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Cool, always thought it would be kind of fun to try glass blowing.
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Yeah, it's been something I've wanted to do for years. I'm really paranoid about the safety aspect of it, so my setup is probably overbuilt, but it's fun. Also, if you look up lampworking, 99% of the people are making pipes and bongs, so there's.... a vibe. 😛
 
Finally got my lampworking station set up
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Edit: Hah, I realized I posted something similar before. That was for a Smith Little torch. This is a whole different beast with an actual propane tank and two oxygen concentrators. Way more involved and way more heavy duty.
 
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lxskllr said:
Spot welders are pretty fun. You start looking around for metal to stick together :^D
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It's oddly satisfying. Electricity scares me, so I went way overboard - rubber floor mat with welding gloves and I even wore an auto-darkening visor. The poor box fan I had on the same circuit would slow down when I made the welds.

Now I need to get some longer jaws for it.
 
lxskllr said:
Better than I've done. Did you learn anything?
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Yeah, it was mostly to test out the vent setup and get comfortable working there. 0 ppm of CO or fuels after about 90 minutes, so that's good. I wanted to get a feel for how the glass moves, heats, and cools. That's borosilicate which has a coefficient of expansion of 33. That's why old school PYREX doesn't shatter when you go from hot to cold. Normal glass is about 90. I have some art glass which is 103 and boy does it pop easily. Just sticking a rod into the flame makes it shatter.

Fun though. The annealing kiln should be up and running tomorrow or thursday, so I'll be ready to go. Going to let the GF take a crack at it this weekend.
 
I just wrapped this up today, had been working on it this past week. It's all 3D printed aside from the controllers and screws (obviously). I had to make a couple changes to some of the files I found in order to make it work how I wanted to, which was also part of the fun. It's super fun all the trial/error with 3D printing and parts fitting or not and then adjusting to fit. Not sure yet where I'm going to hang it yet though, I have a few ideas.

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purbeast0 said:
I just wrapped this up today, had been working on it this past week. It's all 3D printed aside from the controllers and screws (obviously). I had to make a couple changes to some of the files I found in order to make it work how I wanted to, which was also part of the fun. It's super fun all the trial/error with 3D printing and parts fitting or not and then adjusting to fit. Not sure yet where I'm going to hang it yet though, I have a few ideas.

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Time to upgrade to a Cricut!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantToLearn/comments/tceymc/comment/i0eu99s

https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantToLearn/comments/z99yml/comment/iyg4fjn
 
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