Bottle Cap Laser Jig (Customizable)
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#### Problem
As a home brewer I wanted to use individual bottle cap designs instead of labels to differentiate my batches, because removing labels is always a pain. At first I thought of creating stamps for applying the design to the caps, but it didn't work out, because it was difficult to align and resulted in blurry prints. As I don't have labels, bottle caps have to be as pretty as possible ...
#### Solution
Laser engraving the designs turned out to be the solution for me. Although monochromatic, the results look great on colored bottle caps. To engrave many bottle caps at once I designed this customizable jig.
#### Printing
You may have to adjust values a bit (use the customizer or open in OpenSCAD) to ensure a tight fit of the bottle caps on the jig. Print just one holder to try, adjust values and repeat. Printing a large array of holders may work better by adding raft to avoid warping (I haven't removed raft from mine, because it adds some more stability).
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As a home brewer I wanted to use individual bottle cap designs instead of labels to differentiate my batches, because removing labels is always a pain. At first I thought of creating stamps for applying the design to the caps, but it didn't work out, because it was difficult to align and resulted in blurry prints. As I don't have labels, bottle caps have to be as pretty as possible ...
#### Solution
Laser engraving the designs turned out to be the solution for me. Although monochromatic, the results look great on colored bottle caps. To engrave many bottle caps at once I designed this customizable jig.
#### Printing
You may have to adjust values a bit (use the customizer or open in OpenSCAD) to ensure a tight fit of the bottle caps on the jig. Print just one holder to try, adjust values and repeat. Printing a large array of holders may work better by adding raft to avoid warping (I haven't removed raft from mine, because it adds some more stability).
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