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Old 04-25-18 | 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by RobotGuy
Interesting thought, but that tool is too flawed in its current design to be useful. As someone who’s 3D printed a gazillion mechanical robot components in a variety of materials, I can say that no way that spoke tool holds up in anything like nylon, ABS, and forget about PLA.

The bit holder is a cool idea, but I’d question the torque you could apply on those Allen bits with such a short lever. But if you made the lever any longer, even ABS would round over pretty quickly.
Kind of my thoughts as well.
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