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Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

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Re: Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

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Post by rtkwe »

phoronixrly wrote: post #104
idiotsecant wrote: post #99

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You can make it reasonably food safe with an acetone mist bath, though. It melts all the irregularities into a smooth surface.

While theoretically you can get certified food-safe blend of PLA, the rest of the extrusion path must also be food-safe... I personally am not fond of eating hot degraded PTFE... Or the trace remains of charred ASA/ABS I printed last week through the same nozzle... Or in fact any of the various coatings of the heated bed or leftover trace amounts of previous prints... It's just a black hole that I choose not to get i…

The main solution I've heard is to just encapsulate the whole thing in foodsafe epoxy. Then it doesn't matter as much what the inner material in so long as you monitor for damage.

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Post by diggan »

cassianoleal wrote: post #71
diggan wrote: post #58

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> Why do people want to reuse toilet paper rolls? Because some of us have like 200 cables, and toilet paper rolls is a cheap but effective way of getting some control over these :) And besides, I'm sure that my fingers and feet are more dirty when I touch/move any of the cables, than the toilet paper rolls that spent a couple of days in a bathroom.

You go through a roll in a couple days?

I'm not sure if you're trying to say that's a lot or little? But yeah, each roll might survive 3-4 days at most I'd guess, but honestly can't say I've ever measured. We're two people (me and my wife) in the household fwiw.

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Post by 91bananas »

Gigachad wrote: post #46
MarkCole wrote: post #26

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There is also the option to do half bins / half grid pattern at the edge. So you have the normal 42x42 grid pattern, then on one edge there are 21x42 sized boxes. There are a number of designs that support the half grid pattern. This would reduce your maximum lost space down to 20mm, and you would still have compatibility with the gridfinity system.

I’ll have to give this a shot. I can always put the generic bins I can generate as half size on the edge and put the downloaded ones in the standard grid.

Or print a custom spacer to fill any gaps you have on the edges that also has holes or slots to hold even more random crap.

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Post by dekhn »

idiotsecant wrote: post #99
i5heu wrote: post #53

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context: 3D-print material like PLA is food safe, but due to the many edges and lines between the print layers it is basically impossible to clean to a food safe degree.

You can make it reasonably food safe with an acetone mist bath, though. It melts all the irregularities into a smooth surface.

That's ABS- PLA is not really soluble in acetone. It's soluble in limonene.
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