Magic Nut Thing! by DIY3DTech

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We will be taking a look at the "Magic Nut Thing" as a vision that came to me in a waking dream, well in reality I was driving or something but the "waking dream" I figured would get more views. However as they say necessity is the mother of invention and success has many fathers until they all go to the Maury Povich Show with DNA in hand. Yet this is one of those things that I did a "self" why didn't we think of this before! As the neat thing is, it is ambidextrous so nut or bolt doesn't matter as one model fits all. On top of the fact if you want to glue them in you can but don't have to and the second (containing the nut) hides the bolt from the first adding not only a nice cosmetic feature but all a safety one too!
I have started my uploading what I feel the most common size used will be and that is a 1/4 Inch nut/bolt version for cinching or attaching various things. If you need a custom size we have the code published on our Open-SCAD site ( http://openscad.diy3dtech.com/magic-nut-thing/) however it does require the devloper version (2017.01.20) to run which can be found here ( http://www.openscad.org/downloads.html ) for download. Also if you run this it takes a lot CPU horse power as the knurling library (which this was designed upon) creates a huge surface area and cause some systems to lockup.
Build Note: Suggest printing one out and matching it to your nut/bolt combo and if the size is too far (different plastics will yield different results) than simply use the scale function in your slicer to adjust the size.
Open-SCAD Fans: we also have a video out on the Open-SCAD Channel at https://youtu.be/qRvlzpm-In0 if you want to check this out, as well as we have made the code available here: http://openscad.diy3dtech.com/magic-nut-thing/ if want to mess around with it yourself!
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