Every wonder what the cross section of a heat set threaded insert looks like in a 3D printed part? No?! Well I'll bet you're curious?!

It's a sudo known fact of the internet that any "real" maker needs to have a feature wall.

I know, groan, another pandemic virus post thingy on the internets... But come on be honest - By this point you need a new snack right?! We can't make stuff if we don't eat... I present to you Quarantine Crackers! So spicy they'll burn just about anything out of your system! (Not really.) ((And actually they're called "Fire Crackers.")) (((But they are tasty, and I did make them all by myself!))) Alrighty, so basically the plan is we turn boring unsalted saltine crackers into

We did! Checkout part one here if you haven't already. You can clearly see the treated side is much harder than the untreated side in the super duper official siceney "Tappy Tap Tap" test video below! That's great! How far did it penetrate?! Um... Yes? I haven't quite figured out how to measure it... But I can tell you for certain, it penetrated further than if it hadn't been thinned (I didn't tell you yet... After I did the "TappyTapTap" test I coated the opposite side witho

I heard a rumor that if you have soft wood, you can make your own viag... er um "penetrating resin." No I didn't type that with a straight face. Lol... OK, mind out of the gutter, time to get on with it (get it on?!?!? No, dammit - focus!) OK, back on topic. For real this time. Honest. So. We're talking about live edge wood specifically. I have a piece that's highly figured and spalted, that I want to make into a bench or table. However, because of spalting and other "charact