Your willing to run MEK in the classroom but not ABS? That seems a bit backwards. I taught STEM/Engineering in the high school setting for 12 years. We ran ABS in the classroom regularly although PLA was the standard. We had times where we needed ABS for certain applications. We had a couple printers that had enclosed chambers with air filters built in. Those were our ABS machines. If you don't have that, a basic cardboard box over the machine will control the ABS dust/particles and help control the heat during printing. If it's a large part then add a heavy blanket over the cardboard box. It may look ghetto but it gets the job done and no ABS dust in the air.
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I always avoided PLA for car parts because of physical properties... it's brittle and it has a low melting point. There's a lot I like about PETG, but not necessarily for things I wanted to look like anything other than a 3d printed part. That's why I started playing around with ABS and ASA despite the smell. I was setting up my printer in an unused closet with a fume extractor when I got busy with other things... and haven't been back at it. Seemed like a great way to go, have a fairly regulated environment with no drafts and a way to get rid of the fumes.
mudgudgeon
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Curious what's the problem with MEK?
It's used daily by thousands of plumbers as a priming fluid for gluing PVC pipe with solvent cement with no precautions.
I know that doesn't make it ok.
Outlawed in many states. Proven carcinogen. Toxic if inhaled and severe eye irritant. Probably not what you want to bring into the classroom. Most stores don't even sell MEK over the counter anymore. It's a MEK substitute. That still works on PLA but not nearly as well.
mudgudgeon
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Ouch! I worked for a plumbing company for a few years. There was times we worked in under floor crawl space piping up new drains. With the combo of MEK primer and solvent cement, there was definitely times i crawled out from under a floor high as a kite from fumes. Used to be normal practice to have a rag sitting on top of an open bottle of primer. Soak corner of the rag, wipe the joints you're about to glue up, plop the rag back onto the open bottle
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. I am not considering any of this (MEK) for student projects. Student projects don’t need to have nice finishes. Their stuff just needs to work. There are some of my personal stuff that I would like to have a better finish. We also use the printers for lab operations and sometimes it would be nice if they had a better finish. We could use stuff like lacquer or MEK on these one-off type prints working in one of our fume hoods.
Our classroom printers are out in the open without ventilation, in mostly sealed boxes to keep the dust down. To run ABS we would have to set up the printers in a fume hood, buy sealed and filtered printers or do renovations adding roof top exhaust like our laboratory fume hoods. This comes from our EH&S rules. We use laboratory fume hoods for lots of classes, these vent the fumes out of the building. MEK use in there is just fine and we work with worse.
Delta VS
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Recently added this little guy to the website, 91-94 dash clock replacement.
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Adding another one to the site shortly, a phone mount for Magbak phone cases. They are mostly iPhone specific cases but are adding some of the newer non-apple phones as of late. Pretty spiffy and have extra magnets in the case, enough you can stick phone to side of rig, stuff like that. Our mount has a spot for a paired magnet in it so you get extra holding power. Have put many miles on it without issue.
Goes nicely with the cupholder delete/replacement thing for adding ram stuff to the late models and ours for the 91-94 in previous post.
Goes nicely with the cupholder delete/replacement thing for adding ram stuff to the late models and ours for the 91-94 in previous post.
Outsane
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Finally... something for the pre-95..... \m/\m/
Outsane
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Nipple guard for FJ80/FZJ80 Landcruiser or LX450
This is to protect from breaking the coolant hose nipple, made of petg condition: new msrp: 0.0 category: Electronics & Accessories > Car Parts & Accessories > Car Accessories
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Just sell em
mudgudgeon
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Still working great. Have made one change, it now uses an actual RAM ball instead of the integrated printed one. The printed one deformed in the summer heat, so made the change and contacted everyone who ordered one to offer replacement.
Have not had any issues with it falling off except once when driving like a complete idiot (also chipped a tooth), have not had any reports of phones falling off.
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I had great success with the mag mount
mudgudgeon
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mudgudgeon
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Sweet Jeep bruh!
I was hoping someone wouldn't mind sharing their STL so I could print my own.
Nipple guard for FJ80/FZJ80 Landcruiser or LX450
This is to protect from breaking the coolant hose nipple, made of petg condition: new msrp: 0.0 category: Electronics & Accessories > Car Parts & Accessories > Car Accessories
Just sell em
Does anyone know what filament brand and color most closely matches the blue/gray color some 80's have? I've tried overture space gray PETG but it's not quite right.
