3D Printer Laser Engraver for Christmas

[alfsauve]

The loading block holds the case and the case holds the funnel. I like it. 👍

And those are my Flambeau loading blocks which they don’t make any more and are about the most perfect blocks ever.

[Big Frank]

And those are my Flambeau loading blocks which they don’t make any more and are about the most perfect blocks ever.

It looks like you'll have to make more when they're gone.

My gun cleaning kit is a Flambeau tackle box, or some kind of box with a removable tray. The tray holds a lot of brushes and other small stuff, and bottles of oil and Hoppe's No 9 fit in the bottom with a variety of patches. If I buy another box I'm getting a bigger one next time. It's well built and has lasted many years.

[alfsauve]

I still dabble in special effects for theatre and I have a client that I'm working on a life size Plinko board for Halloween.   Instead of ping-pong balls it will feature snack size candy.  I'm pretty much done with design and wanted a final signoff to spend the money.  See drawing below. 

The client unfortunately isn't great with looking at 2D drawings and visualizing the finished product.

Wait.  PING-LIGHT BULB.   I have a 3D design program (Tinker CAD) and a 3D printer.  The world is my oyster.  How about a 3D model to show the client.

[Big Frank]

I still dabble in special effects for theatre and I have a client that I'm working on a life size Plinko board for Halloween.   Instead of ping-pong balls it will feature snack size candy.  I'm pretty much done with design and wanted a final signoff to spend the money.  See drawing below. 

The client unfortunately isn't great with looking at 2D drawings and visualizing the finished product.

Wait.  PING-LIGHT BULB.   I have a 3D design program (Tinker CAD) and a 3D printer.  The world is my oyster.  How about a 3D model to show the client.

Tell them it looks like that. but bigger. Hopefully they understand that.

Suddenly, the Spinal Tap movie comes to mind. One of the guys in the band drew the plan for a Stonehenge model for the song Stonehenge, and someone built it. The size of a model.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE

[alfsauve]

Gun related printing.   

I've learned more about TinkerCAD and how to manipulate the models.  So I redid the .458S funnel as a one piece project.  And I learned how to smooth out the sides of curved objects.  Picture below with the 2-piece gray one and the newer, smoother 1-piece one.

What are those little pieces in the picture you ask.   Ah Ha.  Once a month at my IDPA club we shoot a low light stage.  I suck at holding a light and a revolver.  And since I've got the Perfomance Center, slab sided 686 model, there's no good way to attach a light.   Options:  1)  Get a regular full, rounded underlug model and have it machined for a short rail to hold a light under the barrel.  2)  Sew a magnet into a cap and put a flash light there once the start signal sounds.  Quicker than clipping it on the cap.  Or 3)  Find a way to attach a light to the butt.

1)  Under consideration, but I need it for 3/18's Belton, SC match held at night.  This isn't cheap when you throw in a custom holster.
2)  Done that.  Fall back option.
3)  Ah HA!  So those little pieces are a saddle to hold the flash light straight against the butt.  Second picture you can just see it between the light and grip.  Yes I had to severely cut down the grip, I have several spare grips-which for revolver shooters they multiply almost as fast as holsters.

If you're curious I included shots of the TinkerCAD creation.  The gray areas are "holes".  I call them Black Holes because anything inside just disappears.  I started with a solid block, the added the "holes" to form the shape.  The last picture show the object "group" or compressed so the "holes" turn into non-magical voids.

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[alfsauve]

Follow up on the legality of this for IDPA.

I had the Area Coordinator run this up to national.  Turns out there is a 5" rule for grips in the Revolver Division.  Measured from the bottom of the hammer slot the grip can't be longer than 5". National decided any light attached to the bottom would be included as part of the grip.   There is a width and depth limit, but there's no clear instruction on how to measure those.  I may substitute a Fenix R18 or a OLight Baton for the Streamlight.  They are A L M O S T legal length.

[Pathfinder]

Just Gorilla tape the light to the barrel, problem solved.

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[Big Frank]

Just Gorilla tape the light to the barrel, problem solved.

Contact me for more pro-like shooting tips!

Either way sounds like a weiner winner for home-defense use too. If it works, ir works,