Acrylic Dip Pen Stand

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There is now a second stand made with heat-set inserts! They worked great.

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Yay! :slightly_smiling_face: Iā€™m a big fan of mechanical fasteners for things that might get bumped around (& off table/desktops).

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I can see these obviously, but what exactly are they? I like the way they look and might have some use cases.

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Heat-set inserts are little metal (usually brass) pieces that are threaded on the inside and have a rough structure on the outside designed to melt into plastic. You install them with a soldering iron, or, if you are fancy, a dedicated tool. You make a hole in the plastic a little smaller than the insert (in this case, 4mm or 3.8mm kerf corrected for the M3 insert), then use the soldering iron to melt them in. The melted plastic flows back into the structures on the outside of the insets to help keep them in place. People use them in 3D FDM prints a fair amount.

Hereā€™s a video of installing one:

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Greatā€¦thank you so much. You gave a good description and I will watch the video. :slightly_smiling_face:

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FWIW, that video is 18 seconds long.

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Very cool!

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looks like a museum pieceā€¦beautiful!

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I love this!! how do we get the pattern for it?

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Welcome to the forum.

It is against forum rules to ask for files. If a designer chooses to share a file, they will place the file in the Free Laser Design section of the forum.

https://community.glowforge.com/faq

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If youā€™re looking for patterns, itā€™s best to stick to the Free Laser Designs section :smiley:

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Thank you, and welcome to the forum!

I do have an archive on my website with some of the things I have designed. The dip pen stand isnā€™t there, and probably wonā€™t be, at least for awhile.

As @deirdrebeth notes, there are a lot of free design files in the Free Laser Designs section, including some pen stands.

I hope you will stick around to share your projects and insights. This is a great community with a lot of knowledge about making things. There are plenty of folks here who would likely help if you wanted suggestions on creating your own designs or on fabrication techniques (like kerf bending).

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WOW that looks amazing

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