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Functional 3D Printing

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Welcome fellow prototypers! This communities' purpose is to help others and share functional 3D Printing related information. While other 3D Printing Communities are a good resource, sometimes too many help posts get buried under memes and fluff. This will remain technically focused and keep the fluff removed. Please help your fellow 3D Printer hobbyists as much as you can with their issues! and showcase your functional prints and how you use or created them.

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This is my awesome one-handed soldering iron build, I call the Solder Sustainer! Everything you need to build it can be found at https://www.roboticworx.io/p/build-a-one-handed-soldering-tool for free! (If there's a pop-up just hit "DISMISS" at the bottom.) To support my work, please consider becoming a free subscriber on my page linked above, it would really help me out and allow me to make more projects! :D Happy making! Demos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI2AZPYC_qo&t=3shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgRbwhpl7jk&t=5s

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[–] Newstart 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This a nice project and can be helpful for some people for sure. As for subscribing to your channel, you need to add some more contents before people will subscribe. You have shorts videos which I don’t think the crowd in here will find interesting. At least that is how I feel, I don’t like watching a speedy 40 seconds video.I like watching videos with substance that teaches me something or that inspires me. You seems to have good ideas and some skills, I will revisit your channel again in some months to see if I should subscribe. Good job and good luck stranger from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I posted this, but I have no idea who the designer is. Nor did I even read that they had a youtube channel. So you may want to message them through thingiverse with your statement. The body of the post is auto-filled with the body from thingiverse.

[–] Tandybaum 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this being designed to help people with one hand or to try and make it easier than two handed soldering.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart -2 points 1 year ago

It’s so you can solder and jerk off at the same time.

[–] LazaroFilm 1 points 1 year ago

I always wanted to make something like a 3D pen for solder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it a lot. I always feel like I need a third hand when I’m working circuit boards.

I noticed that at the very beginning of the video, the plastic got too close to the iron and melted a bit. I wonder if you could cover the tip with foil tape to act as a sort of heat shield.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kapton tape would be a good candidate