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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.
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.
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!
Yeah, gotta be careful with tolerances from others… speaking from experience.
More, uh, “experience” than I care to admit.