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  1. silentbobo941

    Press Alignment Problem

    Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to align a die set for use in a hydraulic press and am having some difficulties achieving the necessary parallelism. Ideally we need the top and bottom platens of the die set to be parallel within 0.0005 inch. The die set is assembled in stacked parts so that...
  2. silentbobo941

    Strength of printed ABS plasic parts

    You could try using the regular strength formulas but compensate the values with the % infill of the part. For example, if you had a diameter of 1" with a 75% infill you would take the diameter in the calcs to be 0.75". Might be a good start.
  3. silentbobo941

    The effect wind/weather has on a BBQ smoker

    This is actually much more complex than it seems. The guiding formula to use in an energy balance Qin = Qout where Q is heat energy. It can be broken down as follows: Qgeneated = Qconduction + Qradiation + Qconvection The burning of your fuel is the input heat energy (Qgeneated), while the...

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