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Anyways. I have a 4mm x 20mm green tritium vial in the mail and a bunch of .375" titanium rod. So I will sometime be attempting to machine out a vial holder, possibly make a few to sell, probably with a different design than my personal one.
I thought it was a pretty decent looking design, if you download it you will find the units to be meters, just pretend they are millimeters. Since sketchup is more built for larger designs.
I was thinking about a triangle design but decided that it didn't give 360 degrees of view to the vial like the 4 sided design has, and the 4 sided design should be reasonably straight forward to setup.
The slots are 2mmx18mm with the standard rounded edges of an endmill. The bevels are 45degrees and are modeled to be 4mm at the wide edge and meet with the 2mm grooves. I was also thinking of rounding off the top and bottom edges to smooth it out a little more. Obviously the design is missing a few parts and as is would be impossible to make, there will be a hole through the top which will be plugged with a screw to hold the vial in. As well there will also be a attachment point at the top. I have not yet decided what do to for that, and modeling anything more detailed than this is time consuming and hard for me.
Hope you like the design, I would appreciate it if no one "stole" the design. If you were wondering it's 6Al4V Grade 5 titanium rod.
Anyways. I have a 4mm x 20mm green tritium vial in the mail and a bunch of .375" titanium rod. So I will sometime be attempting to machine out a vial holder, possibly make a few to sell, probably with a different design than my personal one.
I thought it was a pretty decent looking design, if you download it you will find the units to be meters, just pretend they are millimeters. Since sketchup is more built for larger designs.
I was thinking about a triangle design but decided that it didn't give 360 degrees of view to the vial like the 4 sided design has, and the 4 sided design should be reasonably straight forward to setup.
The slots are 2mmx18mm with the standard rounded edges of an endmill. The bevels are 45degrees and are modeled to be 4mm at the wide edge and meet with the 2mm grooves. I was also thinking of rounding off the top and bottom edges to smooth it out a little more. Obviously the design is missing a few parts and as is would be impossible to make, there will be a hole through the top which will be plugged with a screw to hold the vial in. As well there will also be a attachment point at the top. I have not yet decided what do to for that, and modeling anything more detailed than this is time consuming and hard for me.
Hope you like the design, I would appreciate it if no one "stole" the design. If you were wondering it's 6Al4V Grade 5 titanium rod.
