Round Standoffs

Yesterday I printed out a couple of pieces from the pumpkin project to test out the fit and I forgot to add in spacing for the standoffs to account for the tolerance differences from the filament squishing during the print *faceplam*.

One of the realizations I came to recently while learning how to use the woodshop tools at MADE was that the dimensions of your material don’t need to be cut to their exact sizing immediately; you can cut the wood slightly larger than the dimension you’re aiming for and then sneak up on the exact dimension with more precise tools (e.g. planer, sander, router, etc).

This morning with that in mind I thought “if I change the shape of the pegs to circles I can print out the pegs and if they don’t fit exactly I can can just drill them out slightly”.

So, I changed the square standoffs to circles and made the diameter of the connector 3/16th of an inch so that I have a drill bit that should fit the final dimensions exactly. This way, I can get close with printing and get exact with drilling.

The other upside about doing this is that the 3/16ths drill bit is the round equivalent of the 3mm square pegs I initially used, so I can still use the trays I’ve already printed, I just need to drill the square holes out 🙂

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