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  • Garden Step2 Seat: Hinge Replacement

    As fate would have it, the Step2 rolling garden seat took an untimely fall while standing in the garage and broke both its hinges:

    Garden Step2 Seat - broken hinge
    Garden Step2 Seat – broken hinge

    It’s been out in the garden for maybe six years, so those chunks of plastic are fully depreciated.

    Two hours after loading the solid model into PrusaSlicer:

    Garden Step2 Seat - new hinges installed
    Garden Step2 Seat – new hinges installed

    The SiLite tray is well-weathered, but remains structurally sound: still ready for service in the D-Hall breakfast line on the morning after the Apocalypse.

    Living in the future works out pretty well.