Found a use for 3d print supports

[stitchdup]

As the title says i've found a use for the left over supports from 3d printing. I needed to alter a chassis and since its resin i figured using some of the supports for pins would be the best material to use. Its worked well but its no use for smaller parts due to the size of the supports. I've also been using pieces of the supports to make dash switches and knobs. I think it has possibilities to replace straight sections of rod and the raft/islands may be useful for flat areas and since its pretty much waste it could almost be considered free!. I've used boiling water previously to shape some printed door panels so i'll save the raft from my next print to experiment with some shaping.

[paul alflen]

Les, could we make some of those supports that are "scrap" into side exhaust, i.e. like on Corvettes from the 1970's? That way when they are snipped off the 3d print they can be a model part rather than 'scrap"

[stitchdup]

If you have parts normally stacked like that one set of supports will have to start from the part which would mean 2 sets of supports to remove and clean off which would lose a lot of any fine details. At the moment the supports are under 1mm diameter and when you place the parts you make sure the face you want to see the detail on is facing up so the supports are on the glue face. if you tried to mount exhausts in the supports they would probably end up ruined from have 2 sets of supports as one set would have to come off the nice face