I finally fixed something that’s been driving me nuts. See, we put our knives in the dishwasher point down to avoid accidental stabbings, and that really does a number on the plastic silverware basket in our dishwasher. You can buy a replacement basket but they are stupid expensive. So I grabbed my piece of 1/16” Delrin and made a strainer to put in the bottom, like so:
Delrin melts at 347 degF (175degC) and supposedly the dry cycle doesn’t get above 180degF so I should be good to go. Now to make one for each section of the basket.
Indeed. I’ve laser-cut (and engraved) guitar picks for the kids. They use them every day. You can’t even tell they were ever touched. Matter of fact, my younger daughter just asked for some new pick designs. Guess I gotta get on that.
True, and we always handwash the good knives. The ones we put in the dishwasher are the cheapo ones that go with the flatware set. This set just happens to have knives with a pointy end.
I love this! I love stuff like this! Reminds me of early on when I made an acrylic ‘strainer’…for lack of a better word, to replace a rusted out metal one for an outdoor fountain I have. It’s to keep the water from spashing out when it returns into the pool below.
Made me think of Angus Devon’s strainer for washing resin prints. It’s a long tutorial in Fusion, but you could make something pretty quickly with the Glowforge. Seems to be a handy tool.
That happened on my dishwasher too, but I didn’t have a laser so I had to buy the stupid expensive replacement. And now I don’t put knives in there bottom down anymore (everyone has to fend for themselves and be careful… But I’m the only one who unloads the dishwasher anyway).
I skipped ahead to the slicer part. Pretty cool trick to use infill settings for the strainer! ChituBox has infill settings but I don’t think they are as configurable as the Prusa slicer.
I think I got this piece from Amazon, but you can also get it from Inventables, and many plastics suppliers. It’s also known by its generic name: acetal (Delrin is a brand name).
. Love it, and I love Delrin. My last job made me very familiar … it is such a cool product.