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Airsoft project part 1 | How to make a Piston Compressor

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  Video: https://youtu.be/ZvJ3V0CmaRI stl download: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5362738 Chapter I — Plan Airsoft gun, nerf gun. Those are a kind of very popular toy gun.  As we know, the former shoot the 6mm or 8mm plastic bbs ammo and the latter shoot the nerf own soft ammo, which is softer, bigger and more safe than the bbs. They have very different ammo and basically they have very different shapes, but always they work on the same principle and it is shooting by compressed air or gas. In fact, airsoft has more ways to store the air or the gas. A part of them the power is from a mini co2 tank or the airsoft gas. Besides the co2 and airsoft gas, in many automatic electric airsoft guns there is a piston air compressor and that is the similar part with nerf guns. The electric airsoft’s compressor and the nerf’s are not very same but  they have the same working principle indeed. Usually the piston was pushed by our hand or the electric motor.  In addition, it seems the piston comp

How to print a bookend

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STL Download Hey guys today I'm going to share with you my new gadget and this is very easy to make and very very simple so I just decided not to make a video for this gadget. OK, let’s go! First of all, this is my print setting and my software is ultimaker cura .:   Actually the print setting is the most important part but if you want to print more quickly, the easiest way is changing the “profiles default” option from 0.2 to 0.28. Plus, this time I just use the version of 0.28 and it doesn't look very exquisite but it’s pretty practical. In this project support is not an important option if you want to turn it off, it will be ok. And in the other settings you can use the default settings.