I used to work at a construction equipment
rental shop. We would send out blades from wood chippers to be sharpened in
large batches.
When they came back they
were all different lengths due to different wear on each one and for the
chipper to cut wood efficiently the set of 4 blades had to be very close to the
same length.
The previous method of
using ones fingers to line up the bolt holes of a stack of 4 blades then check
to see if the cutting edges line up with a ruler was not very accurate or quick.
I decided to make a jig to align the blades
that included a small vertical slider to check the alignment of the cutting
edge.
After
measuring the blade’s dimensions with calipers and printing out a small piece to
check to make sure I got the dimensions right I printed out the base with no
issues. The dovetail joint for the
sliders, however, was very difficult.
For some reason the dimensions of the dovetail joint on the slider were
different than the dimensions I specified in the CAD program so I had to resort
to trial and error to get the dimensions right.
I suspect it was caused by the G-code generator rather than the printer
since other parts of this project were being printed with accurate dimensions.
