This one was kinda hard to name… but my new Prusa CORE ONE 3D Printer has a little grill on top, that you slide open or closed depending on what kind of material you are printing, to help with temperature control inside the print chamber. But since I’m always using PLA, it’s always supposed to be open. Once I guess I accidentally bumped it and closed it, so I thought I should like to put something in the grill to keep it open.
On the print bed right after printingwith a built-in handle…it fits right into the grilli made a pair!
I don’t have too many model starships, but I do have one little Enterprise D. Unfortunately, the stand for it broke years ago. So what do I like to say? 3D printing to the rescue.
For the last several years, every time I’ve used my stovetop, I’ve had to mostly guess what temperature I’m setting it at. This is because the paint on the handles (or knobs) that indicates HI, LO, or OFF has long-since rubbed away.
Of course, I mostly know what they’re set at, because I’ve been using this stove for close to 20 years, and I just remember things like that pretty well. But, as my youngest kiddo has started cooking some recently, I realized that they didn’t have the benefit of my memories, so it was a problem that I wanted to fix. I had previously tried finding some replacement handles online, but, I had no luck, as it’s a pretty old unit. So, 3D Printing to the rescue!
Before… no marks!After: Beautifully legible markings!Zoomed in.Zoomed out.Front and back
I didn’t actually print complete replacements for the handles. I found that a bit too difficult to model, as the peg that they go on is a pretty complicated shape – not just flat on one side like I’d mostly seen when shopping for replacement handles online. Rather, I’d describe it as more of an angled “H” type shape. Maybe I could have done it, but, instead I just printed circles that would fit over the existing handles, with white and red markings.
(also, thank you to Cursor for writing this new STL model viewer for me… It took several rounds of adjustments, but net-net, had to be faster than trying to write it by hand!)
