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Established 1994

Pittsburgh Garden Railway Society
C/O Ann Celento
312 Hawthorne Street
Canonsburg PA, 15317

 January 2014 Newsletter
 

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From the President's Desk Trips
Chasing Trains - Big and Little What's Cookin'
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Tech Tips
Dave Bodnar

 A very cool 3D printer gizmo now resides at Children's Hospital

I recently purchased a 3D printer (Afinia H Series) and have been designing my own things and downloading others from Thingiverse.com.  One of the coolest things that I found on Thingiverse is a Motorized Marble Machine.  Not only is it a great project to test out a 3D printer but it is also great fun to build and run.  The large gear transports metal balls to the top of the gizmo and delivers them to decreasing radius spiral that returns them to the bottom of the gear.

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