Thanks, I have previous formThat's a great solution
That could be the base unit of a very nice Bonsai turn table ( profitable ?? ) All you need is a base ring 1/2 " on one side and at an inch on the opposite side it at an angled slope fit a plywood top covered in rubber sheet to stop th plant pots sliding off as you rotate the plant to work on it and some rubber feet to stop it all sliding around .Wow! Gotta be happy with that!
Only 20 bearings out of the 38 needed because that would take me deep into the morning before I'd find out. I will sleep well knowing it actually works. Amazingly smooth and tight with only half the required bearings though i did shuffle them around to make sure they fit the diagonal.
Now all I have to do if is find a good use for it. Having looked at robotic arms, I am not even mildly tempted to dip my toe in that water. Gimmee rocket science any day of the week, that robot stuff looks hard! Though I guess I could get some AI or other to tell me how to do it...
Also very handy for sending long bubble wrapped fishing rods by carrier , I've just spent £138 on plastic soil pipe and two end caps with flanges like yours . IIRC the caps alone were £14 each three stirrup clamps with three 44 mm take off inserts made me cry .
Would you be happy to share the files? My welding rods need a nice home.
Adapt the cap or the flange to take a proper sealing "O" ring and get hold of some of the small desiccant bags to keep any contained moisture off the rods ...... guess how I know this ? I used 44 mm sink waste pipes and 28 solvent welded flanges on the end of the cut to size pipes ( plus 50mm ) then added twist to seal caps that had the " O" rings inside the cap . Almost seven years on I recently used some & will use some more today , they appear healthy enough sealed up like this as I took the opportunity to bulk buy some quality rods at a good price .
Can do, will have a dig and send them over
Drip feed watering with nutrient enriched water to all manner of plants ??FWIW I did this too with my plastic welding rods for the Leicester thing I bought centuries ago. Had they not been stored in sealed pipes all these years, they'd certainly be useless by now.
3D printing is the perfect complement to a lot of these off the shelf cheap plastic plumbing bits and bobs. I've been messing about with HDPE milk jugs, making male/female threads. Difficult bit was trying to establish the thread size, pitch, form etc but I got there eventually. Now just need to think wtf to do with the results!
Put the small desiccant bag in the the cap inside a stubby vented screw capped tube ... lots of vitamin tablets ( not capsules ) have these sort of desiccant included caps .
Use suspended inverted used milk bottles with your printed cap filled with a well diluted nutrient such as baby bio to run a mini drip tube to individual plants such as tomatoes or strawberry pants , consistent moisture ( not drowning ) is the secret to growing crops
Print quality looks amazingPrinted via my phone, no pc involved
Full size and wearable Mandalorian helmet. Still requires some post processing.
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Ah Ah it's the Bambu....Cheers, the P1S is a good printer. I am glad I splashed out on it
