Vertical Heat Pressing Machine,Heat Set Insert Tool,Brass Inserts 3D Printing,Heat Set Insert tip for Thread Knurled Nut M2/M3/M4/M5/M6(1/4)/M8

Very well built and thought out tool! You might be looking at this listing suspiciously and about to click out of the listing bc it only has one (albeit totally amazing) review as of 11/20/2024, but WAIT! I was happy I took the risk on this one…if it makes you feel better this seller also has another model with lots of good reviews. I chose this model bc I liked the extra support axis (it looked sturdier) and the fact that the it goes higher and leaves room for larger 3d prints than some of the other designs. Those features are well worth the slight increase in price for me. Design is really well thought out IMO. I like that the base isn’t super huge so the footprint is relatively small in my crammed work space Here’s what I think:All the materials are great quality for the price point. All are metal…not the cheapy plastic-y metal that’s often on cheaper amazon items, but real metal and most of the screws look like a good quality stainless to me. Only thing I think that’s plastic is soldering iron clamp, but that just makes sense- you wouldn’t want to clamp a soldering iron between a metal clamp. As a bonus, The base is magnetic, which is helpful as sometimes I like to use my really strong rare earth magnets to keep smaller pieces in place. Only The only really minor thing that wasn’t perfect is 1 of the screw holes (out of the 10-12 ish?) was just a little off…but in my experience, that’s going to be the case for any of these at this price point. Had zero effect and honestly, if this was perfectly machined it would probably be triple the price. This is a great value for what you get…so buy it already! You need more info you say? Oh alright you greedy heat set fiends…This comes with some fairly decent printed instructions which was great, but instead, I definitely recommend you use the instructions video the seller put in the listing photos- it has a higher level of detail which is really helpful. Keep in mind that the video didn’t show up when I looked for it on the listing in the app, but you just have copy link/paste it into your phone’s browser….watch till the end!The seller is awesome as well, I had to contact to ask kind of a weird question about potentially using it for a totally other purpose. Their reply was very quick and was extremely helpful. They went above and beyond and obviously care about providing good service and products (which is sadly not always true on Amazon), and I’d definitely buy from them again in a heartbeat.Sadly, this was paid for with my own money…so I have zero incentive to lead you astray… of course if Amazon wants to pay me for this review, I would be totally cool with that. But unfortunately for me, it seems my integrity is in tact on this one…at least for the moment.

I didn't even know these existed. It's really easy to assemble, has a small footprint and for the money spent, it's an amazing tool I never knew I needed. As a 3D print enthusiast, I have been printing a lot of cases and other projects that require inserts. Manually pressing inserts into PLA or ABS is a pain. This makes a 5 to 10 minute job into a few moments. Definitely worth the money and less stress. Love mine so far

I'm putting together a Voron 2.4, which seems to require a gazillion heat inserts. I bought this to make my life easier, and ensure the heat set inserts go in straight. For the most part, this has worked well and been a timesaver, but there was some tweaking involved.Easiest way is to do this as pros and cons:Pros:- Easy to put together.- Wheels on 2040 extrusion work well once you tighten up the eccentric nuts correctly. I'm familiar with this already on my old CR-10S.- I like that you can easily adjust the height of the spring. Some parts are short, some are tall. I find that pulling against the spring makes it challenging to do the short pieces, so I like that I can adjust that spring location with one thumb screw and move it down to reduce the spring tension for the shorter parts.- Soldering iron works okay. No, it's not awesome, but for heat inserts it works just fine. I had to go about 10C hotter than I did on my main soldering iron (I'm running it at 250C for inserts into ABS, could probably go a little hotter).- I've had no issues with the soldering iron coming out of the holder. It seems solidly in there.Cons (reason for 4-star review):- "Verticalness" (squareness) of the soldering iron itself. The physical components (e.g. base and extrusions) are square. However, the soldering clamp is a bit iffy, as the clamps hold the iron on the rubber area instead of something that is solid and square. After building it, I eyeballed the iron with a machinist square. The iron was square in one direction (across the bed plate) but off a few degrees in the other (looking towards the vertical 2040 extrusion). I shoved some wire as a "shim" on one side of the mount to make it more vertical and not angled. Still not perfect, but good enough.- Although the included heat set insert tips do work, I found them to be a little tight in the inner portion of the heat set insert. I preferred my old heat insert tips, as those have a little more tolerances and aren't as tight in the heat set. Frankly, this is probably just personal preference.Overall, I'm happy with it and have been successfully using it for my build. It is nice to not have to worry about keeping a soldering iron straight and steady in your hands to ensure a straight heat insert. Just make sure the iron is actually vertical before you start with those gazillion heat inserts.....