There was not anyway to incorporate a bend in the coaster? After all to make it all work out financially you have to bend pretty much everything you make.
I did the math just trust me
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We needed some nonreplaceable plastic covers from Italy for our 80-ton travel lift. Italy told me six weeks.(The manufacturer)
I said hell, I got a 3D printer… BAM, the big man, got on fusion exported to Bambu Studio, and 33 minutes later, I was in the Italian plastic box cover business.
The dam things snapped right on. I am so proud of myself 
The dam thing almost paid for it self today. I would have to buy their entire nema 4x enclosure and had it shipped to the states. All the stuff on this travel lift is proprietary crap. They got it and you need it senerio.
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Yup. I have made replacement electric motor covers, wall plates, enclosures…Solves big problems that are actually simple little things.
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I can’t believe I waited so long for one of these. It makes a whole new dimension to the marine retrofit business.
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It’s good you waited. Only now it’s matured to be the kind of tool you can use like this.
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I know what you mean. I bought some expensive outdoor 110 plug receptacles about $20 each.
Then I found these, $8 a piece. But, there was a problem: no commercial box (at a reasonable price and size) would accept them:
That turned out to be “no problem” as I just printed my own outdoor box with matching cover. The cheaper receptacles have worked even better than the more expensive. If you don’t have a way to “manufacturer” some of these things, you simply can’t move forward.
This is the box I made for other purposes:
And then made the box deeper so it would accept the large hole and 4 mounting holes.
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This is exactly what I was waiting for before getting into it.
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Wow, complete with Spider Webs! Now THAT is innovative! 
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Tennessee River Valley?
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Lookout, Mountian girl. She is my helper.
Most days I can find Black widow spiders, if I really want. They love dark, cool, damp places: like the irrigation valve boxes. Lots of spiders in this area. Hate crawling under the deck and the house. That box has only been there since Memorial Day weekend. It is the power to the robotic mower.
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@ChelanJim what’s the chain for Jimmy?
My wife attaches it to my right wrist so I won’t go on Amazon. 
It is wrapped around the golf cart axle when we are gone. It is in the dog yard, so there are multiple layers to discourage a would-be “borrower.” We don’t have a garage at this location. It at this location from May till September, then we haul it home.
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The texture on the top of that coaster is perfect. Doesn’t even look 3d printed to me. Total game changer. It looks like textured abs plastic.
Bambu has a textured build plate. I flipped the design upside down on the build plate, which comes out textured.
I have smooth, textured, and several weird ones like
stars, honeycomb, and carbon fiber designs.
I printed some boat parts yesterday also out of black ABS. I did get a white tinge on the surface when I removed it from the build plate. Google said I removed it before it was cool, leaving the haze.
I am learning pretty fast, though. @TinWhisperer, @ChelanJim, and the rest of the crew help me out.
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HA! I thought that was really bad stringing.
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That webbing shows why the cover over the unoccupied receptacle is so important. There is one on the far side that the mower is plugged into.
The visible one is for charging the golf cart.
Like I said, worked out better than expected and all thanks to having that 3D printer.
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So how long does it take to print that box?
The one thing that bothers me about my early attempts at 3D Printing is the time it takes to print anything.
I am going to guess less than 2 hours.
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