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So, what else have you been printing, Larry?

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The past month has involved two types of 3D printing projects:     - Printing Grateful Dead license plate frames and  coasters for my wife to give to friends, and     - Printing parts for my grandson's Brio train. My 2 year-old grandson is infatuated with trains, and I'm hoping this will soon lead to him getting interested in building rockets with Papa in a few years.  We were given a nice, "gently used" train set after our neighbor's children outgrew it but I saw some designs online I wanted to build to customize the layout for my grandson. First, I found a cute tunnel with the track by a user named alchemic on Thingiverse : Next, I found a bridge that looks kind of like a miniature Golden Gate Bridge by a user, RICie on Printables.com .  This required several days of printing and a couple of tries to print the curved, ascending track correctly but it turned out nicely and supplements certain pieces of track we didn't have.  I rearranged the tra...