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And you could make them in different colours to help find the ones you use most These 3D printers are looking more interesting Jo
Not having a 3D printer I just sliced lengths of pvc water pipe, about 30mm inside dia by about 30mm long, and using plumbers pvc pipe adhesive stuck them all together. I have a full set of metric collets + plus some duplicates and about 5 or 6 imperial ones, probably 30 in total. This set up fits in a small and relatively cheap set of steel drawers from the local "Supercheap Auto", the collets actually sit on the soft plastic tray liner in the bottom of the drawer. Problem solved!!As I also have a set of ER11 collets, I used a similar process for keeping them neat and tidy. Smaller plastic pipe obviously.cheersBill
I made a collet holder, for my ER16 collets, out of some nice 3/4" birch plywood and had it in a drawer. Then, since I was using the collets so much, I beveled one edge and mounted it on chip shield for my lathe.Now that said........I think it would be way cool to have a 3D printer to play with and make all kinds of neat holders and such! One of my neighbors just got one. Need to go check it out.................and also his home brew refrigerator that is out in his shop. Jim
Quote from: bp on January 05, 2017, 04:10:47 AMNot having a 3D printer I just sliced lengths of pvc water pipe, about 30mm inside dia by about 30mm long, and using plumbers pvc pipe adhesive stuck them all together. I have a full set of metric collets + plus some duplicates and about 5 or 6 imperial ones, probably 30 in total. This set up fits in a small and relatively cheap set of steel drawers from the local "Supercheap Auto", the collets actually sit on the soft plastic tray liner in the bottom of the drawer. Problem solved!!As I also have a set of ER11 collets, I used a similar process for keeping them neat and tidy. Smaller plastic pipe obviously.cheersBillNice solution Bill. If I had the appropriate PVC pipe in stock I think I'd follow your solution. Very elegant.Cheers,J. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
But you have a 3D printer. You could always print some PVC pipe! Jim
While I fight with my printer here is the target I am looking to make. The idea is to be able to make blocks holding 4 collets that can all be placed in a drawer. I don't think I need to come up with a way to lock them all together at this point, but we shall see how we go. There are many examples on thingieverse, the idea here was to (a) continue to extend my learning of Fusion 360 and (b) get a simple tray that I could modify as I saw fit. With the parameters in this model tuning to, for example ER11 collets, should be pretty simple.Cheers,J.
As my 3d drawing is crap and can't seem to grasp it I am going to print parts for a 3D scanner I found and try that. I bought the 2 lasers needed from China and just need the stepper motor and Arduino board to complete it but Xmas got in the way . I found the info on Thingiverse.Pete
You could save yourself some material and printing time by hollowing out the underside, if you print them top side down there won't be any need for additional support.
Why not just ask Bruce or myself to carve one out of a nice tight grained piece of hardwood on one of the CNC machines?Murray.
Tom, my last post got lost in the ether so I'll try again. I'm tossing up between 3 but may try this one first.Pete