3D printing, can anyone help out?

[Nickfromwales]

Hi folks. 
 

One of our legendary system admins @TerryE gives up a huge amount of time, unpaid as a volunteer, to keep the forum running (done almost entirely behind the scenes).

Others do so also, but this time we’ve a friend in need, and it would be wonderful if we could return the favour.
 

Please see the following, and if anyone can design and print a small item, it would be a big help. 
 

TIA.

 

Thanks for looking. 

[TerryE]

Not needed guys. Sitting brooding can work wonders. An offcut of 28mm copper pipe crenellated using pliers works wonders. 🙂

 

But thanks for the thought, Nick.

 

[Spinny]

I can only confirm it will be the design that is the difficult/time consuming bit. A lot of younger guys do have 3D printers.

There are of course 3D scanners which can be used to produce a 3D model by laser scanning the object desired. Unfortunately I think decent ones are well over £10k so only found in engineering companies.

 

As I write I see Terry has solved it, and is now about to launch an enterprise selling lengths of crenellated copper pipe on ebay for £20 a time ;o)