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Pinecil tip for installing threaded inserts? - smcleod - 05-20-2023
What's the latest update on getting a tip to install threaded inserts?
They're commonly used in 3d printing and the off-the-shelf tip adapters for other irons do not fit the Pinecil.
Example:
https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/threaded-inserts/0278534
The most common size the 3D printing community uses is M3, followed by M2 then M4.
The tips could be made in several ways but I think the second option of the two I've sketched up below makes the most sense:
If there was a tip with element that simply had a m3 screw thread I suspect someone with a welder could pretty easily whip up the varying heads and sell them cheaply online.
RE: Pinecil tip for installing threaded inserts? - KC9UDX - 05-21-2023
I could make them without welding (wouldn't want to weld that anyway) but I sure wouldn't be able to sell them cheaply. Someone with a Swiss screw machine could make them cheap but probably only in the kind of quantities that wouldn't be saleable anyway.
RE: Pinecil tip for installing threaded inserts? - smcleod - 05-21-2023
(05-21-2023, 01:16 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: I could make them without welding (wouldn't want to weld that anyway) but I sure wouldn't be able to sell them cheaply. Someone with a Swiss screw machine could make them cheap but probably only in the kind of quantities that wouldn't be saleable anyway.
They don't have to be threaded - if it was a company manufacturing them that would be nice - but the inserts only need to sit on the tip comfortably.
RE: Pinecil tip for installing threaded inserts? - KC9UDX - 05-21-2023
It's still lathe work, best suited for a Swiss screw machine in high production.
If I were you, I'd get a Sherline and make them on the kitchen table.
RE: Pinecil tip for installing threaded inserts? - kifujin - 09-11-2023
CNC Kitchen now has a set of TS100 - compatible tips.