good afternoon YouTube this is my shipping room where we ship a lot of the parts that my company
sells we also have some of our inventory in here smaller parts so I picked this storage
bin assembly up from Harbor Freight probably six months ago and that's been working pretty
good I got a lot of the small parts and various Hardware metric nuts and bolts and things like
that here like I said we also do shipping in here and one thing I was thinking might be kind of neat
is if I had a way to hold one of these tape dispensers up here I was looking here there's
these two screws I don't know if you can see the one right there what I found or printed these a
little while ago these are inch and a half pipe clamps or plastic pipe and I was just looking
here and that's almost what I need except you can see right there it's not quite wide enough here's
the two screws are a little bit wider so I went and measured the spacing there it's about ninety
millimeters between the two screw holes yeah so we're sitting about 70 millimeters between
the holes so what I did was I took the STL file for that part and loaded it into the slicer and
I scaled it up by 9/7 and you can see it's a little bit wider there and now we line up with
the two bolt holes yeah screw got one out there actually the width of the hole is okay I just
need to open it up because it got a little oval with the resizing okay there we go to drill the
holes out to quarter-inch is there six millimeter screws and now I should be able to just drop that
in there I think that'll work I'll show you where I downloaded this STL file from and then just did
a quick modification on there and now I've got a custom tape dispenser folder I can put this
one back in there and I think we're good to go keep that there so that way I have basically two
dispensers is one problem I run into is it never fails about 4:30 in the afternoon you're trying
to get your last packages packed up so you can get them off to the post office or UPS and you run out
of tape so now I've got a second roll ready to go yeah might might actually build one for that side
of the storage bin as well that way I can keep keep my spare on one side that way I get it up
off my table make more room on the table for packing up orders and keep these things up and
out of the way so I think that's the next plan and I will print one more of these once the printers
freed up and then I've got two two tape holders ok mentioned earlier this is where I picked up
the 3d model for those pipe clamps so I picked a one and a half inch plastic pipe clamp this is on
the mcmaster-carr website you just click on the part there and if you go here to product detail
it will give you information on the part and I just came down here to 3d models clicked on 3d
SolidWorks and then you click on save and that will download the file yes so then I brought
the SolidWorks file into Autodesk fusion 360 and then you can just select your part and then you
can go into any number of ways to go there but I just do save as or 3d print and you get this
here and pick your options and you can either send it directly to cura or you can just save this the
STL file directly so I've already done that here and so here's Keira and I've already saved that
file so you can just go in here all load a model file Lummi and there's my one and a half inch pipe
clamp and so when I printed this I printed one of them at full scale and that's where I measured
the hole to hole spacing came out to be about 70 millimeters and I needed 90 millimeters so
that's about 28 percent scale and so I just went over here and I think it's the X so if I just do
1 2 8 you can see it stretches the part sideways and then makes these holes 90 millimeters apart
and then I just send that to the printer and you saw the results so that's how easy it is to make
a custom part just find something that's pretty close to what you need and then you can just do
a little scaling I didn't have to draw anything I already had one printed out but you could actually
go into fusion 360 if you wanted and just measure the hole spacing and then do the scaling you could
either scale the part in infusion or scale it right in the slicer that you know I did I just
left the part normal size in the STL file and then I can scale it as needed because I actually needed
some of the normal sized parts to sew so I needed to print some of these for my plumbing on my
utility sink in the garage I needed just a couple of hangers I could buy them for mcmaster-carr and
I buy thousands of dollars a month of stuff from them but they want to sell me let's see what was
it 10 pieces and I need like 3 so what am I going to do with the other 7 parts and then in this case
I needed some odd sized parts and with the with the physical parts you can't really rescale them
they're fixed in size where with a 3d printer I can go out and print them whatever size I want
yeah if you have any questions about that post up in the comment section below I'll put some other
3d printing videos over here on the side you might be interested in and as always thanks for watching
okay there we have it YouTube I've got the main tape dispenser over there and then
I out of the second pipe clamp over there for my backup tape dispensers