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What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:09 pm
by Demolishun
What am I making?
What could it be?
What could it be?
Am I a bit eccentric?
Am I a bit eccentric?
Hint: The nylon washer...
Hint: The nylon washer...

Re: What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 1:29 am
by carter
It's a very tiny turn table that can automatically change 1" records. minus the needle/electronics obviously

Re: What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 3:26 am
by McSlappy
I'd say it's a cake stand with a clip so that you can snap it onto those door keeping clips. This way you can hide a mini cake behind a door and surprise people with it. No one would ever guess to look for their birthday cake attached to a door clip!

Re: What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 2:24 pm
by Demolishun
Cake and records, that is just awesome.
How about this?
How about this?

Re: What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 1:14 am
by McSlappy
Ah, now that's a cool little upgrade!
How do you like them? Should I ask for the file and print my own? Are they awesome?

Re: What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 3:40 am
by Demolishun
So far they are holding up. They keep everything in place. I printed with ABS so the dimensions might be off for PLA. I will post the files and let people play with them. I make them is Cubify so the source files are not exactly universal.
plate_clip.stl
The bottom part of the clip.
(75.28 KiB) Downloaded 275 times
plate_clip_hub.stl
Eccentric hub part.
(102.82 KiB) Downloaded 276 times
I initially planned on use the slot in the hub to adjust. However in practice you can do by hand. I think I may extrude the bottom part of the hub a bit to make it a bit less wobbly when placed on the clip part. You will have to sand/file the clip post or the hub as the tolerances are tight. With PLA it might be loose. Or maybe with a better calibrated machine it will be loose. I don't know.

I do my clips in batches of 9 to prevent heat from sagging the post. With the hub I just did 6. You only need six total.

If someone needs this modified here are the Cubify files, or if you are really nice I can play with changing dimensions for you.
plate clip files.zip
Clip source file (Cubify Design)
(61.53 KiB) Downloaded 256 times
Let me know how these work out for everyone. They are working fine for me now. I just was tired of my paper clips from flying off across the room when I pried parts of the borosilicate.

Re: What is it? (You are supposed to guess. :) )

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 6:04 am
by McSlappy
Awesome! I'll download these on my other machine and try them out using PLA!
The clips aren't bad, but I'd like something more consistent :)