Let’s consider thinking about this process in terms of heat transfer. Installation holes are smaller than the inserts themselves (they’re undersized), so we can’t install inserts by hand force.

Heat-Set inserts are one such tweak that we can drop into a print, and [Kurt] spares no expense at laying down a guide to get us comfortable with these parts. Here, he’s created a drill press ...

Back to top Conduction in liquids Insert a lump of ice at the bottom ... Radiation is the transfer of heat energy from a region of high temperature to a region of low temperature by infrared ...