Stuff your 3D printer has made today...

[indy4x]

Printed this



Unfortunately it's missing its thread

Take 2



That's better

I'm making a storage tube for one of my antennas. I do portable operations occasionally and needed some protection for it. Tube is a piece of plastic waste pipe





Next I have to make a screwcap

 

[Bladevane]

Like I suggested earlier, offset male and/or female flanks in the model to achieve a nice fit. A 3D printed item will never be identical to the drawn item for reasons explained above.

 

[ukracer]

No female involved?

Not met many tight females. They usually spend spend spend. Lol

 

[ajlelectronics]

Not met many tight females. They usually spend spend spend. Lol

Until their victim's money runs out, then it's off to find a fatter wallet.

 

[Onoff]

A simple, hook bracket thing in translucent PETG. This to mount the solar panel from the Lidl PIR light over a car port fascia. (Didn't have any white filament). It'll have M5 countersunk stainless screws / nylocs to fix to the black bracket:

 

[Onoff]

Not met many tight females.

Ah yes, as in pre the kids coming along. best I don't mention that to H11 SWMBO...

 

[Onoff]

Spot the deliberate mistake!

First bracket was fine but felt we could hide the black cable:

Came up with a two piece design. They overlap and are held together by two M5 screws through the back of the bracket that go through the black bracket of the light fitting.

It even has a channel at the back for the cable to run:

Couldn't fit it. Anyone see why?

 

[Screwdriver]

Yes but you can still countersink the back, fit the screws the other way around and for extra points, 3d print some acorn nuts for the front.

 

[Onoff]

Yes but you can still countersink the back, fit the screws the other way around and for extra points, 3d print some acorn nuts for the front.

Erm... there's no way of getting the cable between PV panel and light through the print as its hard wired both ends.

 

[Screwdriver]

Cut a notch in the side.

 

[Agroshield]

...there's no way of getting the cable between PV panel and light through the print...

Maybe not this time, but as a future engineering challenge, work out how to print the part around the cable.

I guess it would be easy if the part is on its side: halfway up with a semi-circular notch in it, lay in the cable (horizontal and below all moving parts of the printer) and continue printing. Part on the flat (cable vertical) is more challenging.

 

[Onoff]

With the aid of a mitre block and dedicated plastics saw, made the cable fit:

 

[indy4x]

Couple of reels for some Slim Jim antennas

 

[Screwdriver]

I got a real of ORANGE! from Prusa during a sale. Lovely stuff to print and looks awesome.

 

[Screwdriver]

Printed this

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Unfortunately it's missing its thread

Take 2

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That's better

I'm making a storage tube for one of my antennas. I do portable operations occasionally and needed some protection for it. Tube is a piece of plastic waste pipe

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Next I have to make a screwcap

That's a very clean looking print.

 

[Wedg1e]

Turns out, if you create a model in Inventor with threads, it can't do proper threads and they won't print on a 3D printer!

Fortunately there is a plug in, and it's free that will sort the thread out in your model so it is printable

This was a test print to see if it works, cap and boss

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So it works, but the tolerance is too tight for them to screw together

Will have another stab at it and see what needs tweaking to make it work

Last thread I printed was to screw into the nose of an artillery shell. Printed on the back of the threaded 'boss' was a cylindrical mesh basket - that was fun to draw!

 

[indy4x]

Printed this

View attachment 363587

Unfortunately it's missing its thread

Take 2

View attachment 363588

That's better

I'm making a storage tube for one of my antennas. I do portable operations occasionally and needed some protection for it. Tube is a piece of plastic waste pipe

View attachment 363589

View attachment 363590

Next I have to make a screwcap

Did a couple of test prints for the screwcap and then went for the final article





I like the orage filament, easy to spot if you drop it in the long grass or lose it in the back of the Jeep

 

[Wedg1e]

What printer do you use, Indy?

 

[onlymeagain]

Some holders for the lathe quick change tool posts and a holder for various lathe tools.

 

[indy4x]

What printer do you use, Indy?

It's an Ender 5 Plus