I think everyone would be very interested in watching @DaveR guest host a Friday live video.
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furthermore, it could be interesting to have a “virtual basecamp” where over the course of a few days, we would get a series of live events. some lectures, like in the actual basecamp, some live modelling sessions by various people, some AMA, some demos…
basically a 3DBC but not in a desert.
it could even be every other year, alternating between physical 3DBC and virtual.
just thinking out loud. carry on, off topic closed 
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but then how an they charge you $700 to attend!
I appreciate the suggestions about me doing a guest spot for the Friday live video. Thanks. I doubt it’ll ever happen for a few reasons including just the technical logistics.
I started another engine to get this thread back on topic. Clearly a long way to go
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I’m sure @TheOnlyAaron would appreciate your comment but having watched many live streams I am of the opinion that Math or Maths -UK is not his strongest point. Apologies if I’ve touched a nerve in this reply😂
I was thinking just silent modeling time-lapse video with music in the background for fun. Similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVgdae-InSI
No need to entertain us with the extras.
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Maybe one of these days I’ll do that.
Sleepless night waiting for the printer to finish. I wasn’t sure if I had enough filament on the spool to complete it.
Temporarily installed–waiting for black flat head screws and lock nuts to come tomorrow.
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I love this thread and just realised why.
Many of us share a passion of looking at old hand drawings. I love scoring through old carpenter books most of them saved on my computer.
The beauty of the presentation, all the necessary information on a relatively small space, presented in a minimalistic manner, but with artistic composition And the old paper underneath…
This is what inspires me, to creat models and to document them following the same principles.
I alway come back to this thread and remind myself that it’s possible.
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Thank you.
What is this for?
It’s an auxilliary footplate for a wheelchair. The turned up pieces on the sides are to prevent the user’s feet from falling off the sides of the plate. They are adjustable for width in 2mm increments.
FWIW, here’s an example of a commercially available version of the aux footplate.
It weights about three times the weight of the one I made, required that additional holes be drilled in the aluminum footplate, and cost about $300 USD. The one I printed uses less than $3 USD in filament and doesn’t require anything but a 4mm hex wrench and a 10mm wrench to install. Of course finding a 10mm wrench could be a challenge. They should be sold by the dozen.
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Ah nice yes i see it now. Nice job.
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That’s a pretty big part. IIRC, you have a 3D printer with a fairly large bed?
The large piece is 8 in. wide by 6 in. and the build plate is about 18 in. square. Good memory.
The printer takes up a lot of space but it’s nice to be able to do these larger pieces.
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Of course finding a 10mm wrench could be a challenge
A 10mm spanner - no problem in the part of the world that uses proper measurements- only joking, I don’t want to start the metric imperial discussion again.
My point is that 10mm wrenches (usually sockets) seem to go missing along with the pencils in a shop. I have several 10mm spanners and sockets but sometimes they are hiding with the pencils.
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Ah! I’m glad that’s a universal problem.
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That has been resolved in 1933. The inch is a derivative of metric units, standardized then as exactly 25.4 mm.
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That means all my wrenches are technically metric. 
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