I’ve had it for a couple weeks and finally got the wires squirreled away, ran test cuts, and it was finally time to run parts.
Here are photos of a fixture/pallet to slot ten hair forks. I love this thing! It will slot ten blanks in the time it took me to do one on the manual milling machine. And yes that includes loading and unloading the pallet.
I won’t end up carving them on the OF. I plan on making a similar fixture to profile them. I don’t think the OF will be able to carve faster than me but I bet I try that soon enough as well.
I did not use the magnets. I ended up making a plate and attaching the monitor with double stick tape. It’s working well. I did use magnets for a controller dock though…
I use a modified Ender 3 Pro and Matterhackers Pro PLA. I designed it for the aluminum tube because I came across some scrap years ago and keep coming up with reasons to use it. It’s 1" diameter ~.0625 wall and was light enough for this application.
I’m happy to share the files as-built if you are interested. You can have the Fusion 360 file if you want to tweak it for your purposes or spin it for inspiration.
@MustCreateThings Mike, thanks for the kind offer to share the file. I use Fusion and can gin something up that suits my arrangement. I found your concept very interesting and I’ll remember what you did.
I don’t have a wall to hang the display off of and will likely mount it on a stalk off the table, to the left of the machine.
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Hey Mike,
Yes. You can use the little “Upload” icon in the top bar of the composer window (authorized extensions: 7z, ai, bz2, c2d, con, cps, crv, crv3d, dfx, dwg, dxf, eps, f3d, gcode, gif, heic, heif, img, jpeg, jpg, json, lbdev, nc, ngc, mp4, pdf, png, pp, skp, step, stl, stp, svg, zip).
Units = mm
I printed them in PLA and they use four 12mm diameter (2mm thick) magnets. I also use foam double-stick tape as it seems to stick better to the controller plastic. You could also glue the plate if you are worried about it coming apart.
