00 Pill Filler Thing

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Three parts (the platform, the pill holder, and the pill packer) Place the holder on the platform Fit the pill packer into the holder before you put your empty capsules in to make sure the holder is facing right side up! Set aside the packer and load the long half of the capsules into the holder, pressing them flush with the holder. Fill the capsules. Use the packer to tamp down the contents and top them off. Slide the platform out from underneath the holder WITHOUT lifting the holder up Press the holder down. Because the quantity of capsules, there will likely be some resistance the first few times you use it. Press down SLOWLY on each side until the holder is all the way down. If you press down to hard you run the risk of the holder suddenly becoming unstuck and slamming down, sending the contents of your capsules up in a cloud of dust! I have an Anycubic Mega S and printed all three parts first on draft quality, which took about 3 hours per piece if I remember correctly, and the capsules fit very tight. Also, the platform was a smidge warped. It still worked fine, but it felt a little jenky. I would not recommend printing the platform or the holder on draft quality, although the packer was fine on draft quality. Next I printed the platform and the holder on normal quality, and the result was acceptable. It looked a little rough, but it functioned exactly as intended. As I mentioned above, sliding the holder down after the capsules were full took a little longer than i would have liked (maybe two minutes of pressing slowly on alternating sides) but it was still a marked improvement over the draft quality and it did the job and saved me lots of time. The print took about five hours for each piece. I suspect that if the holder had been printed on the highest quality setting, and given the improvement from the first to the second quality setting, the fit would have been perfect and the capsules would have fit tight enough to avoid and powder falling underneath but the holder would slide down easily once the capsules are full. That being said, I still decided that the it wasn't worth the nearly 10 hour print time and the additional filament to find out.