Pinecil tip for installing threaded inserts?

[smcleod]

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.

[KC9UDX]

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.

[smcleod]

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.

[KC9UDX]

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.

[kifujin]

CNC Kitchen now has a set of TS100 - compatible tips.