3d printed nuts, bolts and washers! Needed to bolt something together and the shops are closed as it’s sunday, this was the solution!
LOL - when you’re a hammer…
(Very cool - keep it up. I love watching what you & your printer are up to)
What size are these? M4 maybe? Files?
@Samer_Najia These are M8, used thingiverse customizer to make them using these: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:193647
@seb_seb thanks. I need M4s and am not patient enough to wait on Amazon…
@Samer_Najia Well my printer isn’t that precise and these work well, so if you have a precise enough printer M4’s should be possible! Good luck anyhow!
So what’s gonna be hangin’ from these then? I printed a few M8 Nuts just for kicks last month and was shocked at just how well they worked.
@Duncan_Gunn Don’t know if you saw my post about a month ago but I was trying to print a follow focus, unfortunatly it failed, so I printed it again this weekend. The problem is you need nuts and bolts to assemble it all so I printed these, so in the end a 100% printed follow focus!
@seb_seb I’m not sure you’d want that.
A follow focus needs to be precise, have no play and silent, very easy bearings.
@Marcus_Wolschon Yes, I have been playing around with it and 100% 3d printed isn’t great, just wanted to assemble it this weekend. I will most likely go and buy the appropriate nuts and bolts tomorrow. Also I will try using bearings instead of washers. It was still fun to print all of the parts though!
@seb_seb Did you design the parts and if so what software did you use. If you downloaded them, what site did you use.
I have needed bolts and nuts in the past and have not found anywhere to download them or found software I am able to design them on.
Any help would be appreciated.
@Paul_C I found them on thingiverse, you can use the thingiverse customizer to make the dimensions you want! Here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:193647
Did you really need that thick of a brim?
@Scottie_D369 I like to play it safe, it hardly costs any more to print and helps the print stick.
Well I’m not saying don’t use them. I also use them but really only like 4mm. But generally using a glue sticks helps big time in prints! Also I just wanted to say that it is recommended to do those individually. That way if a print does fail you ruin all of them. So yes everything is taking a chance there.