Old School And New School - Ink Bottle Holder - Adventures In 3D Printing

[Matlock]

When I modeled my pen trays I used 20mm cutouts and then raised them slightly. It worked great for my MB 149.

I put a narrow slot on the end for converters/cartridges. The box is a $13 picture shadow box and I fit two trays into it for a total of 20 pens.

 

 

http://driften.dragonsightsoftware.com/images/PenBox-2.png

 

But the genuine MB case holds 20 pens and only costs £1,060.00 .

[Corona688]

My husband has a low-end 3D printer. So far, I think it's mostly been a kind of expensive toy.

Here's the deal: The parts it prints could be replaced by dollar store trash, if dollar stores ever stocked anything interesting.

 

Not being willing to pay $30 for a piece of scrap metal, I designed and printed a microphone stand for myself and put the design up online for others to use. It's the most popular thing I've made, I think.

 

Not long after I did that, someone snapped up my design, converted it to attach to dollar-store brooms and voila - $1 microphone boom. That's something worth a hundred dollars! Even though you can make it out of one printed part and some dollar store trash.

 

Other things I've made. Cofeemaker parts. Shredder parts. Cases, boxes, nibholders, gearboxes, valves, faceplates, plant watering devices, hose quick-fits, remote-control helicopter legs (broke lots of those), mailing tube caps (like hell I'm going to mail-order those), and a ratchet screwdriver.

 

If you ever feel like you're being ripped off, you can make something yourself. If anything you need is a day-trip or a week of shipping away, you can make it yourself. If you have an idea and aren't so good at modeling clay, you might still be able to make it yourself. etc.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Corona688