Author Topic: Holding 'thin' parts for off centre hole making.  (Read 7695 times)

Offline petertha

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Re: Holding 'thin' parts for off centre hole making.
« Reply #30 on: June 08, 2025, 06:49:10 AM »
I've had one of these anodized aluminum spider spacer kits for a while. They are OK but kind of spendy for what they do. They don't really fit my smaller diameter chucks like what I use on the rotary table or spin-dexer so I just 3D printed a graduated width set. In the slicer program I specify added wall face thickness so can take a skim cut to make them uniform width in case there is any print distortion. PLA machines quite nicely with a sharp cutter actually. The good thing is you can drill into them if the part requires without fretting about ruining the tooling.

Offline PaulR

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Re: Holding 'thin' parts for off centre hole making.
« Reply #31 on: June 08, 2025, 07:01:44 AM »
Those look very tidy - I do know someone with a 3D printer so might be able to get some made.

 

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