Little Water Hunting With The AT

[kac]

9 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Nice job and it looks like it will do the trick.

What type of printer are you using?

What size of scoop will that fit?

Fits my RTG scoop that has a 4 3/4" id.

Picked up a single extruder large format Anycubic Chiron that can handle 16x16x17 approx. Was sceptical on the printer at first but it is actually incredibly reliable. Bang for the buck its a great printer. Used an SLA printer for more than a decade so going over to FDM was fairly easy as it is more like a cnc machine.

1 hour ago, rvpopeye said:

Nice little piece of engineering. ?

I'll chance a prediction.... ?

That set of diamond earrings it catches will buy you a new Equinox 1000....?

Man made diamond ? might pay for the gas as I am walking distance to the pond haha.

Cleaned off the scale on the inside of scoop with a wire brush and used some 3m heavy duty mounting tape. Gorilla tape would probably work fine too. Seems to hole well. I chickend out on the rivet as it would leave a point inside that would get in the way and the plastic may break through. My scoop is pretty bent up from years of abuse so zip ties didn't work.

[Rick N. MI]

That is going to work great for you. Good job.

[Rick N. MI]

I didn't know you can get a 3d printer at a low price. Did you use the Cad software that comes with the printer?

[kac]

I use a couple different cad programs. One of my favorites is fairly inexpensive called Moments of Inspiration. It can be run off most laptops and has a very short learning curve. It is also very stable. What I do love about it is I can see the tesselation prior to export and refreshes as I change curvature values so I know I am getting a nice optimized stl for 3d printing.

Software can be found here:

https://moi3d.com/

The Anycubic machines uses free slicing software called Cura but you can use others. So far Cura has some descent presets for different materials to get the projects jump started.

Amazing how expensive all this was not that long ago and how accessable it all has become.