EPAIII
Diamond
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2003
- Location
- Beaumont, TX, USA
Making your own bezel and the hot chip problem suggests that glass crystals may be a better choice.
But then, to make the idea complete, you would need a 3D printing stock that both melted in the printer and did not melt with the hot chips. Or, since this is a metal shop forum, just make the bezel from metal. Aluminum and brass come to mind. There's a nice challenge to your shop skills.
Another idea for a heat proof bezel would be to 3D print one and use it as the pattern for a mold. Then pour a heat resistant plastic or silicone material or even a metal like aluminum in the mold for the final bezel.
Since you want to make everything yourself, there are many possibilities.
Aside: They make all kinds of 3D print filaments. I wonder if they will ever come up with an optically clear one and a way to print with it with optically flat surfaces. I know; I dream. But what the heck, in my life I have seen TV cameras come down from the size AND WEIGHT of a refrigerator to small enough for my cell phone to have four of them in it and they aren't even the main components of the cell PHONE. And then there's computers: all I can say is wow. Dreams do come true. And I sit here typing this on one such dream.
But then, to make the idea complete, you would need a 3D printing stock that both melted in the printer and did not melt with the hot chips. Or, since this is a metal shop forum, just make the bezel from metal. Aluminum and brass come to mind. There's a nice challenge to your shop skills.
Another idea for a heat proof bezel would be to 3D print one and use it as the pattern for a mold. Then pour a heat resistant plastic or silicone material or even a metal like aluminum in the mold for the final bezel.
Since you want to make everything yourself, there are many possibilities.
Aside: They make all kinds of 3D print filaments. I wonder if they will ever come up with an optically clear one and a way to print with it with optically flat surfaces. I know; I dream. But what the heck, in my life I have seen TV cameras come down from the size AND WEIGHT of a refrigerator to small enough for my cell phone to have four of them in it and they aren't even the main components of the cell PHONE. And then there's computers: all I can say is wow. Dreams do come true. And I sit here typing this on one such dream.
