In this episode I revisit an old Filament Friday where I created an Jimmy
Diresta inspired push stick. Well I resized it on my larger CR 10
mini and customized it for my father-in-law I'll show you all the
steps on today's Filament Friday. Filament Friday is brought to you every week by the
generous donations of my patreon supporters. Jimmy DiResta on his
recent video blog talked about his push stick that he created many years ago and
he's actually bringing it back I actually took that design a long time
ago and made my own on my DaVinci 1.0 and he featured it in his blog which was
really awesome. Well I was already starting to look at this for the CR 10 I
wanted to make a custom one for my father-in-law so because they have a CR
10 mini with a 300 millimeter wide I could now build a bigger one than I
could before cuz 8 inches was the biggest I had before and now I've got
like a 12 inch bed so I brought the original design in and I made it larger
and then I went to work in Tinkercad to modify it now the first thing I did
is get rid of the DiResta and not to disrespect Jimmy but I want to make one
for my father-in-law with his name on it so I adjusted a few things took out a
piece that I didn't need for his name and here's the base that I'm gonna work
from and actually I'm gonna save this this will be on CHEPCLUB.com for
anybody wants to file and I turned it 90 degrees at least so the base was flat
not completely 90 and then I brought in a text tool and spelled out my
father-in-law's last name which is Brockway. Then I adjusted through the
text tool the bevel and the size and made this thing so it would look decent
and fit on the space that I had here. Now I'm actually gonna do this in two color
so I changed it to yellow so it's easier to see and then I just changed that to a
whole because it's gonna take away material but I lifted it up three
millimeters and I did that because the back of this thing is gonna be three
millimeters tall and white and in a different color on top so the letters
for B R O C K W A Y will shine through as white. So I sized it again, position it on
the bed, everything looked good and then this thing was ready to export and so I
exported as a dot STL file and brought it into simplify3d now
here I'm gonna do two processes on my CR 10 mini I'm doing a 50% fill, 3 top and
bottom layers, three perimeter shells. These are pretty standard temperatures
I'm using but here's the key I'm gonna tell it to stop printing after three
millimeters that's the first process and this is what it will look like. So then I
have to do a second process. So I added a process all the same settings all I did
was say start printing at 3 millimeters and so what I'll do is I'll change
colors and print a second one and when I slice this one here's what it looks like
you can see the letters are cut out Brockway will shine through. And it's
also lifted off the bed so I save those as separate files
so it's Brockway1 and Brockway2 so I chose Brockway1 and I've got white
filament loaded up and here it is printing on the CR 10 mini. This thing
does a great job notice how smooth it is how level I've got the bed level so once
that was done then I went back changed the filament and chose Brockway2. Now
I've got a blue filament in. Now both of these are the matterhackers MH new
filament that I'm trying out and it printed really well and here's the
finished look and it just popped right off the bed I did use a little glue but
it came out great and you can see the Brockway just shines through. He's gonna
love this. So what is a push stick if you're not familiar with it? Let me show
you, we'll test it on my own table saw and we'll cut a piece of wood in half.
And here's what a push stick does for you, it saves your fingers. So you got a
small piece of wood like this and you want to cut it in half this push stick
is really thin so it fits between the fence and the blade and I could push it
through without my fingers getting near the blade so that's what this is for
does a great job he's gonna love it. If you liked this project maybe check out
some of these videos that are popping up and if you want to know more about the
projects join us at CHEPCLUB.com. I put a lot more information up there and some
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up and subscribe that way you don't miss an episode and that's it I'll see you
next time on Filament Friday.