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Haven't seen a thread for this kind of thing, so: post your own non-dental tool/equipment designs, or really anything clever you've made to solve an in-lab problem.
I have a mechanical CAD design background, so I can do a lot with our 3D printers. There's a lot of call for organizers/holders for materials, for example- the stock emax packaging is very bulky and doesn't exhibit your inventory levels well at all, so I cooked up a suite of modular emax block holders:
plus "reorder blocks", so when there's less than 5 blocks remaining the tech can just stick this in the holder, so when we do our weekly ordering you can just do a quick scan of the drawer and immediately know what we're low on:
Or: we were getting a ton of zirconia discs chipping and breaking with our current "a bunch of plastic bins" storage approach, so I made vertical racking that stops them from knocking into one another, and is sized specifically to nest within the bins we use:
As far as actual tools go, we get a lot of use out of these 'reamers' i made for cleaning the zirconia out of Roland tool magazine pockets;
Or the microscope phone adapter I use to take decent photographs of parts with milling issues without any special equipment:
But yeah, post whatever good ideas you've had, so I can... take inspiration from 'em.
I have a mechanical CAD design background, so I can do a lot with our 3D printers. There's a lot of call for organizers/holders for materials, for example- the stock emax packaging is very bulky and doesn't exhibit your inventory levels well at all, so I cooked up a suite of modular emax block holders:
plus "reorder blocks", so when there's less than 5 blocks remaining the tech can just stick this in the holder, so when we do our weekly ordering you can just do a quick scan of the drawer and immediately know what we're low on:
Or: we were getting a ton of zirconia discs chipping and breaking with our current "a bunch of plastic bins" storage approach, so I made vertical racking that stops them from knocking into one another, and is sized specifically to nest within the bins we use:
As far as actual tools go, we get a lot of use out of these 'reamers' i made for cleaning the zirconia out of Roland tool magazine pockets;
Or the microscope phone adapter I use to take decent photographs of parts with milling issues without any special equipment:
But yeah, post whatever good ideas you've had, so I can... take inspiration from 'em.