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  • MakerBeam Swarf Cleanout

    Playing with Evaluating a recently arrived MakerBeam Starter Kit revealed swarf snarls in the tapped end holes. After giving up on a needle-nose tweezer, a compressed air blow gun expelled the mess from a handful of short beams:

    Makerbeam - internal swarf A
    Makerbeam – internal swarf A

    A scrap of acoustic foam backstopped the rest of the assortment:

    Makerbeam - internal swarf B
    Makerbeam – internal swarf B

    Which doesn’t account for the scattering of swarf and oil blown elsewhere in the Basement Shop.

    Perhaps a bad day in the MakerBeam factory?

    Protip: wear eye protection when using compressed air!