rapman-education's posterous

rapman-education's posterous

Dave White  //  A place for educators, teachers, lecturers and students to find "stuff" about RapMan,BfB3000 and BfB 3DTouch printers... The unofficial Blog by Dave White, Advanced Skills Teacher and Head of D&T in Clevedon School UK.

Jan 3 / 9:26pm

I lost it!

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Ok, I've left myself open to comments like "what do you mean, you lost it ages ago" ... Well what I really lost was a tiny bolt from my 3D Touch printer ( yes, that will teach me for messing around with it). Anyway, the bolt dropped down a gap between my desk and a filing cabinet that my printer stands on and I really didn't want to start moving that lot around.... So...
All I needed was one of those clever "magnet on a stick" thingies, but I haven't got one. But I do have an aerial (antenna) from an old FM radio and a 10mm rare earth magnet, only problem... How do I fix them together (blue tack only resulted in the magnet sticking to the metal filing cabinet).
So I printed a little adapter .... Result, one retrieved bolt and a new "magnet on a stick thingy" for my toolbox.
Neat! 
Attached are some shockingly poor photos of the thingy, a CAD render and the adapter in Axon