I have a condition. It’s called Prime-nesia. You order a bunch of stuff during a sale, throw it all in a box when it arrives, and completely forget about it. This was that box. Let’s go through it.

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What You’ll See:

Votive candles and colored PETG

I’ve been learning Fusion 360 and decided to design a candle holder. Then realized a real candle would melt a 3D print. Enter: votive candles. I also grabbed coffee-colored and olive green PETG because both would look sharp with a candle glowing through them. Project incoming.

TPU filament

Never printed with TPU before. I got the stiffer variant (T98) and the reason is genuinely stupid — the rubber inserts in my truck’s cup holders are missing and cups rattle the whole drive. So I’m printing new ones. That’s it. That’s the project.

Whiskey flight glasses

A guy in my business networking group does whiskey and chocolate pairings. He wants a custom flight tray. I have ideas. I needed the glasses first to size the bases correctly. Stay tuned.

Heat press machine for threaded inserts

This is the centerpiece of the whole order. Heat set threaded inserts are knurled on the outside, threaded on the inside — you heat them up with a soldering iron tip and press them into a 3D print where they fuse permanently. The result is a real metal thread in plastic instead of just screwing into the print itself. Way stronger. I grabbed metric sets plus some 8-32s and the matching cap screws.

Meshtastic WisBlock

This one’s nerdy but cool. Meshtastic is a free off-grid mesh radio network that runs on 915 MHz. Your phone connects to one of these little devices via Bluetooth, and you can text other Meshtastic users without any cell signal — useful for camping, offroading, anywhere you lose service. It works kind of like ham radio but no license required, and range is a couple miles with clear line of sight. I already printed a case for it that needs threaded inserts — hence the heat press. Planning to semi-permanently mount one in the truck as a base station.

PET plastic sheets

Someone in my network asked about custom chocolate molds. You can’t use 3D prints directly because the layer lines make them not food safe. Solution: vacuum forming. I didn’t want to buy a vacuum former so I built one out of Fusion 360 — a box with a vacuum attachment, a grate, and a clamping frame that holds the PET sheet while you heat it. Drop it over your mold with the vacuum running and it sucks the plastic tight against it. Cornstarch apparently helps it pull tighter — I forgot to use it on the first batch, so the results were rough. More testing to come.

Somehow I have more projects than time. Working on it.

🧰 Parts Featured (Affiliate Links):

• SUNLU PETG Filament – Brown Coffee
• SUNLU PETG Filament – Olive Green
• PRILINE TPU Flexible Filament – Black
• SUNLU PETG Bundle – Black x2
• GLENCAIRN Whiskey Glasses
• Vertical Heat Press + Heat Set Tips (M2–M8)
• Kadrick Metric Screw Assortment – 2000pcs
• 1680pc Hex Head Screw/Nut/Washer Kit
• ruthex #8-32 Threaded Inserts (50pcs)
• Brass Heat Set Insert Assortment (Metric)
• RAKwireless WisBlock Meshtastic Starter Kit
• 12×12 Clear PET Plastic Sheets (10-pack)