It is the extruder barrel clamp as shown in the previous post. As you can see it is dimensionally correct to two decimal places! It's not a fluke, the height is bob on 45.00mm as well. I have been getting pretty good accuracy with my previous milling attempts but this is astonishing.
I used a smaller end mill (2.22mm) in a collet chuck which is more accurate than the three jaw chuck I used before. The plastic is a sheet of 9mm Delrin or Acetal which I used because I read somewhere that it was a good plastic for machining. It did machine well but all the edges were left with a thin burr. This was fairly easy to remove with a fingernail.
This is not the latest version of the RepRap design but I decided it would fit my machine better. I added two more mounting holes and changed the central hole diameter to match my PTFE barrel which is 12mm rather than 10 or 16mm in the original design. The central slot is 2.5mm rather than 2mm because my bit was too big. Obviously I will have to drill the horizontal hole for the clamping bolt with a drill press.
Here is an edited video of it being made, it took around 20 minutes to make the part :-
And here is an amusing out-take if you listen to the sound :-
So having achieved perfection on this first part, things can only get worse when I attempt to make the rest of the extruder.
