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  • Photo Lamp Mount: Moah Plastic!

    One of the cold shoe mounts I made for the photo lamps cracked:

    Photo Lamp Mount - fractured
    Photo Lamp Mount – fractured

    It’s done in PETG with my more-or-less standard two perimeter threads and 15% 3D honeycomb infill, which is Good Enough™ for most of my parts. In this case, there’s obviously not nearly enough plastic in there!

    Redoing it with three perimeters and 50% infill should improve the situation, even though it looks identical on the outside:

    Photo Lamp Mount - reinstalled
    Photo Lamp Mount – reinstalled

    I didn’t replace the other mount. If it breaks, it’ll get the same 50% infill as this one. If this one breaks, I’ll try 75%.

    An easy fix!