3D Printed Container for Silver in Capsules...

[greektony]

Perhaps a stupid question, but i was thinking of designing and 3D printing a storage box for my capsulated 5oz coins and some airtite tubes. I would be using PLA reels. From a cursory look online it looks like this shouldn't be an issue? From what I can gather, it is only an issue if the coins are not in capsules but I could easily be mis-construing what I'm reading.

Does anyone have any advice or experience doing this? Thanks

[mr-dead]

I 3D printed a case insert for my custom Gairsoppa bar in PLA+.

Also bought a flocking kit off ebay to give it a nice soft velvet feel and so far so good

Also bought a boxed 10oz Gairsoppa with damaged insert and printed/flocked a replacement:

 

 

[greektony]

@mr-dead That does look nice. I think mine will probably look more like a bigger version of this lol

[mr-dead]

Its worth considering where you are going to store it, if its exposed to heat e.g. direct sunlight then PLA can warp over time.

You may be better off using PETG filament, its stronger than PLA and more heat resistant.

[greektony]

@mr-dead thanks for that info. I think i should be ok with PLA where it will be stored. I will be mimicking a case like this one, although obviously bigger lol

[mr-dead]

Something like that would be easy to knock up in tinkercad (free to use basic online design software)

[greektony]

in case anyone is interested, this was the design i finished on as the least over engineered way of storing my 5oz coins lol. Should be able to hold 5 in capsules at a time.

First 3d print in a long long time. Should have finessed some of the settings to get a better quality print but it does the job  now just to conceive of a design for my 10 oz bars

[RedDragon77]

This is great stuff, hadn't thought of 3D printing storage solutions for PMs!