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A Little Bit Engineering-1 (Updated)

A Little Bit Engineering-1 (Updated)

Jan 15, 2021

Hello Everyone, 

We are dealing well, aren't we? When we do design? Yes! When we do print? Yes! When it does work? Not every time. 

Designing and printing should be a good combination if reliability is needed. It is like a basketball player's shots. The player thinks, calculates and shots. Therefore, when we design something, we should also do a calculation to have accuracy. 

Let's see my experiment based on the pictures above. I designed a keychain and I printed it without calculation. I know that it should be a minimum of 2mm for not to bend easily by a hand force. It was strong enough; but, I forgot something: Key chain's ring thickness!

Because of the metal ring's thickness, I broke the weakest point of the chain called NECK! The neck was smaller than I expected; thus I must do a bigger and stronger neck. To do so, I measured the metal ring thickness and played with the number of neck fillet. (It was 1mm and I changed it to 2mm.)

Does it work now? After printing... ;)

Update: It is stronger and works perfectly!  (Check up the last pic.)

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