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I made another Hockey Team Keychain (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So this is for a more popular team which I've been told isn't doing so well this year. And when I said "what's new", I was told " you know where you can go".

For those who asked last time this is all printed in parts and assembled together in one print like so

PXL_20231209_212831566

Files are again available on Printables and Thingiverse though this model is bigger. I shrank it down in the x and y in my slicer by 50% for these prints

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6364966

https://www.printables.com/model/675731-montreal-canadiens-keychain-ornament

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Just curious, when making this how much tolerance did you account for? I want to make some for baseball teams, but wasn't sure how much to add.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You can test this with a simple set of pins and a hollown tube to fit. In anything that lets you define parameters, just set the pins to something like [diameter] - .01x[1, 2,3,4, etc]

The other tip here is to make the parts slightly trapezoidal in cross section, so they start easy and only really pressfit tightly the last bit,

Edit: it’s different for every printer, even printers of the same brand. It depends a lot on how well tuned it is, and just what the total dimensional consistency is between prints.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thats a very fair point. I've done tolerance tests with mine and can get away with 0 with some encouragement and .05 just fine. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, gotta be careful with tolerances from others… speaking from experience.

More, uh, “experience” than I care to admit.

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