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  1. pdentrem

    New to me spreads from the west coast

    My sister came back from visiting family and she put this on the table! Yummy! Pierre
  2. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Drill/Grind small hole in very hard steel

    This might be of help. Read post #3 https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/spot-annealing.78098/#post-662749
  3. pdentrem

    Which Linux? Be Kind…

    Or make it a dual boot.
  4. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Here is a summary of the Ryan’s boxes I printed. I did print multiple copies of all of these. One can see that they are of different sizes as needed to fit the wild section of taps in my poor collection. Trays like this are very flexible in being able to resize. I included a screen shot of the...
  5. pdentrem

    Which Linux? Be Kind…

    You can get a PC without OS but not at a big box store.
  6. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    This may be of use. How to slice and merge
  7. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    I simply scaled in X for narrow slots, like for 1/4” taps was 50%. I did some at 75% as well. I enlarged in both directions for larger taps X and Y. Z will make the slots deeper. I did all this in slicer. Pierre
  8. pdentrem

    Have I been profiled?

    I got one of those in my last order. It is a growing market, though there are fences around cemeteries to keep people in.
  9. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Well that enough for the day. Stack 3 high maximum in this drawer. Nice to finally get organized and not rubbing on each other as I did not have enough tubes and caps for all. I ran out of white filament so the last ones were black. All thanks to Ryan! Pierre
  10. pdentrem

    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Printing another 3, which I enlarged to 4” wide by 5 tall for the larger taps in the drawer. I still need more of the smaller ones.
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