Stuff your 3D printer has made today...

Dapph2 · Apr 12, 2026

MattF said:
Do you want me to print you one & post it?

Yes please , see PM.

Onoff · Apr 14, 2026

Test piece for unistrut capping.

ajlelectronics · Apr 14, 2026

Just a shim for another boat owner's wobbly table leg. I don't think that he was expecting it same day as enquiring about it!

BrokenBiker · Apr 14, 2026

Dapph2 said:
It's just like it was four years ago it will not accept my email address as a valid email address yet again.

Are you copy/pasting your email address in?

I've found quite a few sites/apps won't let me register if I have done that, or used auto fill, but if I type it manually it's fine

Anguz · Apr 14, 2026

Sometimes a space gets added to the end

Dapph2 · Apr 14, 2026

I try again both ways . Thanks

Edit Waahhhh !!! , they sent me the log in code five hours after I went to bed , now it's invalid . Just re asked for a new one at 21 24hrs. we will see if it appears at 20.00 hrs., 23.00 hrs . or midnight .

jimbo84 · Thursday at 11:49 AM

The original strainer for the shower tray has been broken for ages results in the drain getting clogged up and a regular unblocking.

Drew a new on in Onshape and printed it. The one fitted is the 3rd print because I kept messing up the measurements :doh:

There’s a cover goes over all this lot to hide it away.

Onoff · Thursday at 7:49 PM

jimbo84 said:
The one fitted is the 3rd print because I kept messing up the measurements

Be fine with some hair round it :whistle:

Dapph2 · Thursday at 8:01 PM

Onoff said:
Be fine with some hair round it

I wondered if due to always being damp will the plastic grid take in water , expand and be a sod to take out ?

jimbo84 · Thursday at 8:08 PM

Dapph2 said:
I wondered if due to always being damp will the plastic grid take in water , expand and be a sod to take out ?

I’ll let you know in a month or so when it needs pulling out for a clean. I hadn’t thought about water absorption but the thought crossed my mind about warm water regularly running over it and whether that bit of heat might affect it.

I’m probably contributing to micro plastic water contamination in some way too but we’re all about 20 years too late to be worrying about that now.

Dapph2 · Thursday at 8:21 PM

Just make the points it may stick at a few % smaller or remake with small lugs / points of contact places that will easily give way when stuck and pulled up when wet .

Geoffm · Friday at 4:05 AM

The window blind in front of my desk in the office fell down a few weeks ago, when the 40 year old plastic bracket finally broke. The sun glare is intense and hard on th eeyes adn you can't see the computer screen. Being lazy, i propped it up to do something about it later. It usually fell down shortly after.
Today was later, when it fell down, again, in the middle of an online meeting. Fired up Fusion and dealt to it rather than doing work.
White PLA, 100% infill. Should last long enough, and more to the point, the blind is back up and I can see again.

ajlelectronics · Friday at 7:03 AM

Geoffm said:
White PLA, 100% infill. Should last long enough

As long as you don't let it get above about 50C in the sunshine. I would do another one in nylon 66, ASA or ABS.

Dapph2 · Friday at 2:22 PM

Geoffm said:
The window blind in front of my desk in the office fell down a few weeks ago, when the 40 year old plastic bracket finally broke. The sun glare is intense and hard on th eeyes adn you can't see the computer screen. Being lazy, i propped it up to do something about it later. It usually fell down shortly after.
Today was later, when it fell down, again, in the middle of an online meeting. Fired up Fusion and dealt to it rather than doing work.
White PLA, 100% infill. Should last long enough, and more to the point, the blind is back up and I can see again.
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Send a set off to our metal casting friend for a few token & I'm sure you'd get a lovely cast aluminium pair in return .