3D Printed PLA Gear after 2 Years? - Spur Gear Tool in Fusion360

2 years ago I printed a replacement gear for a salad spinner. So many of you asked me how it held up over the years. Today we’ll find out! I also used the Spur Gear Tool in Fusion360 to design a new replacement gear with involute teeth and this time printed it in Nylon (PA12) instead of PLA. In the end, I even used a nozzle to perfectly print the fine details. I show you two ways to reverse engineer the gear parameters for example the module that is an input parameter for the macro. Old video: Download the Fusion360 file for the gear: 🛒 Equipment used in this video (Affiliate Links): Original Prusa i3 Mk3S: Fiberthree filaments: Magigoo PA to get Nylon to stick: EMSA Salad Spinner: Bosch PBD40 Drillpress: Determining gear dimensions:
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