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are you stuck at home with nothing to do
do you own a 3d printer if I can't think
of anything to print with it does your
wife or girlfriend glare disapprovingly
at you every time you mentioned the 3d
printer that she didn't give you
permission to buy in the first place
well they may not be able to help with
the last one but for the first tube I've
made a list of 10 free and cool 3d
models you can print today to add some
style to your place or even just to dull
the mind-numbing repetition of not being
able to leave your house number 10 my
first suggestion of things to print is
something I've needed forever but every
one of these I've printed hasn't worked
out for one reason or another this paper
towel holder is pretty cool and that you
can attach it to a wire shelf or the
bottom of a cabinet and it doesn't need
to bend to hold your paper towels in
place you just screw the dowel end into
the end of the paper towel roll and
you're good to go so now I can fantasize
about a day when I own paper towels
again and can actually use it
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number nine a soap dish is something
I've never really needed personally
considering a prefer to use liquid soap
in most situations and it seemed weird
to put liquid soap in a soap dish for
some reason however I was recently given
a gift card for world market and among
other things I ended up buying a bar
soap with it or a bar of man soap soapy
man bar now that just sounds like a very
specific kind of place whatever it
smells amazing and looks pretty cool on
top of the soap dish in my opinion note
this video is not sponsored by a world
market or man bar or anybody else for
that matter number 8
are you looking for a way to fight off
that never-ending boredom and repetition
of being stuck indoors all day I'm not
but to be fair this has been my
lifestyle since way before social
distancing became a thing but for the
rest of you here's one pretty cool print
to keep you fidgeting and occupy your
mind for at least a good minute and a
half this infinity cube print is a
torture test that I had to scale up to
about a hundred and fifty percent and it
still had some issues but it looks
pretty cool and it's fun to play with
once in a while number seven for the
next one to be honest I was mostly just
looking for another print to add to this
list but I'm not mad at it I hear you
this hyperboloid pencil holder is pretty
awesome and then it can organize most of
your pencils into a single location on
your desk if you prefer or if you want
to do something artsy with it you could
always fill it up with pencils or dowels
and rest one of those decorative balls
on top like you see in random coffee
table bowls and hotel rooms number six
so this one is more of a generic
category than a specific model but
cookie cutters like this eric cartman
one or a great reason to put your 3d
printer to work in my opinion you can
design your own if you want or just go
with one of the seemingly infinite
number of cookie cutter STL options you
can find online without having to wait
for them to be delivered to you assuming
you can find what you're looking for in
the first place disclaimer though there
are many people who will tell you that
FDM 3d prints are not food safe and to
be fair they're probably right partially
for example if you're using PLA to print
a bowl or utensil and you decide to try
using it regularly to consume food that
may not be such a great idea because of
the porous nature of FDM prints the
theory is that leftover food can
accumulate in those pores and grow
bacteria that will end up making you
sick despite your best efforts to clean
the prints after each use but to be fair
wood has some of the same potential for
storing food particles and that doesn't
stop people from using wooden spoons to
stir their food you can always use some
kind of food safe finish on your print
to make sure that's not a problem
however as far as claims go that using a
brass and oz little print will leach
harmful toxins into your plastics that
will transfer to harming you if you try
to consume anything with or off of that
print I haven't seen any solid studies
proving those claims that doesn't mean
that they don't exist just that I
haven't seen any so with all of that
said a couple of things to take into
consideration if you're going to print
cookie cutters with PLA you probably
want to wash it pretty well before using
it and not in a dishwasher because it
will melt and without some kind of
finish it may not be particularly
reusable straight off the printer since
it will start accumulating food and
bacteria the first time you use it
number five for any of you planned or
unplanned plant parents out there try
saying that five times fast this
hypercube vase or Vaz printed in a rare
filament made by a company that doesn't
exist anymore is pretty awesome-looking
and might make your desk or windowsill
look a little more stylish you can use
it to hold some smaller plants or maybe
even your favorite flowers number four
if you're like me and always looking for
a way to hold stuff in place while
working on a home project
this fully print advice could be exactly
what you're looking for the vise is
designed to be fully printable so
there's no need to go by any extra
hardware screws to make it work just
print assemble and go
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the only downside is it doesn't have a
way to mount it to a table or hold the
vise in place when you're using it
however one really awesome trick that I
learned thanks to watching Crimson
guitars videos is the masking tape and
superglue trick and it really comes in
handy with this vise if you're not
familiar the basic concept is this
instead of using some crappy
double-sided tape that is either too
messy or too weak to hold your stuff in
place effectively you take a piece of
masking tape and put it on one thing
that you want to hold in place then you
put a matching piece of masking tape on
the thing that you want to stick it to
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after that you super glue the two pieces
of masking tape together
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and now it's not going anywhere you'd be
amazed at how well this holds things in
place and it's very easy to clean up
just pull up on the vise peel the
masking tape off and you're good to go
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number three this is probably pretty
obvious to anybody watching my channel
but one thing you could spend time on
while you're stuck indoors is printing
upgrades for your 3d printer for example
I particularly like this set of z-axis
braces for the mana price maker select
v2 they got rid of a lot of the wobble
in my maker select z-axis and I've never
had any problems with them but no matter
what your printer is you can likely find
some kind of upgrade to print to make it
better or worse
not all upgrades are actually upgrades
unfortunately number two if you have
multiple SD cards or just an
overwhelming need to relive your
childhood by recreating Mario related
paraphernalia this question block SD
card holder might be for you in my
opinion it looks awesome if you print it
with enough infill that feels really
substantial and the lid fits on it
really nice and snug without falling off
the only real downside is the original
question marks don't really fit in the
recesses as well as they're supposed to
I resize them so they fit pretty much
perfectly and you just have to super
glue them in place so I'll upload those
and add a link to that model in the
description below with the rest of the
models also for you switch owners out
there there are other variations of the
same block with slots made to fit
multiple switch games instead of SD
cards so this could be a great option
for keeping track of them and number one
this Batman headphone stand looks
awesome in my opinion and while it may
be slightly creepy to have the Dark
Knight sitting on your desk at all times
or in your headphones at least you won't
have to worry about any Joker stealing
them
but seriously I like this print a lot
there were some other superhero related
headphone stands like Wolverine but the
Batman one was by far my favorite and
for a bonus print
I'm sure if you watch any other 3d
printing youtubers you've already seen
by now people recommending that you go
print PPE to donate to your local
healthcare workers I fully support that
trend if that's what you decide to do I
have read a few articles on the subject
and there are some things to take into
consideration one if you're going to do
this check with your local hospital or
healthcare providers to make sure that
they need what you're offering to print
for them because you don't want to waste
ten spools of filament printing
something that's just going to get
thrown in the trash because nobody will
accept what you printed and two if
you're trying to print the popular face
shields that seem to be a big trend in
the 3d printing community right now
you'll likely need some sort of sterile
environment set up to make sure that
what you're producing is clean and safe
to use to my understanding most
hospitals will only accept sterile
supplies although it's hard to say since
a lot of them have fallen on really hard
times recently and to add to that if you
were anybody in your house is currently
sick I'm sure the local hospitals
appreciate the thought but you're
probably okay to sit this one out
although no doubt there are likely
charities that would gladly accept
donations however if you're prepared to
take on the challenge and decide to
devote some of your printers time to
helping out the cause I would highly
recommend going and reading some
articles or watching some videos
dedicated specifically to the subject
also if you know of a good source of
information on the topic feel free to
leave it down in the comment section
below and I will try to add any helpful
links I can to the description of this
video anyway that's all for now links to
all of the models I mentioned in this
video should be in the video description
below if you have any personal favorite
suggestions for things to print that I
didn't mention here feel free to leave
them down in the comment section I know
my videos aren't usually that
interesting to watch so I figured I'd
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