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Create the cooler piston

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Create the cooler piston

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- [Narrator] The cooler piston is the final part that we need to make for the cooler side. And it's a very simple part. It's just a flat desk that screws onto that threaded rod that we've already previously made. So you start a new part, and this only has two features. So, start a sketch on the front plane, and draw a circle. that's fixed to the origin, and is 36 millimeters diameter. Then extrude it five millimeters, and it can just be blind or mid plane, it doesn't really matter. And let's call this pace. Then it just needs a hole for the rod to screw into. Open the whole wizard, and lets out a straight tap ANSI metric M6X1, three wall. And for the position, it just needs to be in the center of this large face. So click on the face, and then just click at the origin. And that's it, as I said, this is a very simple part. So just save this as cooler piston. In the next chapter, we'll add all the new…

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