Mike_H said:
DO IT! My 3d Printer is a tool, mostly. Sometimes its nice to just make cool shit with it too. One of our local shelters was looking for 3d Printed toys to give away for Christmas...I ran a couple plates of flexy salamanders...Super Cute little guys.

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This is why I've kept a lot of PLA on hand, always making things like this for the kids. Even my mom was out somewhere and saw a 3D printed flexy snake that she really liked so I was able to find the model and print her one.

The bonus to me is I can make useful stuff if needed.

For 4H I always help the kids build a rocket for the fair. Installing the fins has always been the hardest part. I bought one of these a few years ago.

They seem like a good idea but they are wobbly as hell and hard to center.

So my daughter and I fired up fusion and made a perfectly fitting alignment tool for her rocket. She got champion. Too young to take it to state fair though.

Rocket Fin Alignment Tool & Flexy Snake

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