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Re: Do you use 3d printed mounts?

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Originally Posted by BenjiSG View Post
We use a great deal of 3D-printer mounts! It seems as though we're constantly making more. We've used them for everything from air tanks to pressure gauges to Talon SRXs to limit switches to cameras, to basically everything else we can think of
Be careful printing parts under pressure. A lot of these polymers need to be really thick to prevent fatigue and failure in that kind of loading scenario. The old clippard tank recall comes to mind.
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