I’m a faux curmudgeon.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Interest include reading, love to spend time with a good book. 3D printing and design. Lapidary and smithing both for jewelry and metalwork. Electronics and designing odd things that use microprocessors.
I am the servant of 1 kitty and happily married to my wife who is way smarter than me.
( She has the PHD )
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Cake day: November 19th, 2022
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I printed 2 gears for my 7x12 lathe out of a filament from Igus.
https://www.igus.com/product/20322?artNr=I190-PF-0175-0750
Been in use for over 5 months and from inspection are in good shape. Quieter and unlike the originals durable. One is sacrificial and will shear if the lathe jams. When I jammed it it loaded the motor pretty heavily then let go so it did work. Some replace that gear with a metal one but I wanted the sacrificial feature so I do not blow the motor and speed control.
You need a heated chamber and they recommend heat treating it before use which I did not do since I was not certain it would not change the dimensions.
They have a few other filaments that are also useful. I went to this after multiple attempts to 3d print delrin. Even made a wood bed and finally gave up.
It’s not cheap but I still have over 90% on the reel left after printing 3 gears.