After getting my 3d printer, one of many first issues I modeled and printed was a really primary vacuum hose adapter. One thing easy that allowed the top of my smaller mud extractor hose to simply and securely match into the bigger fittings on instruments designed to work with a shop-vac-style hose. Briefly order, I printed half a dozen of them so I may depart them on the instruments and transfer the identical hose from machine to machine. I feel mud assortment fittings alone justify the price of a cheap 3d printer. Immediately I’d prefer to share a few of my favorites that I’ve both printed or wish to print. You probably have a few of your individual I’d like to see them within the feedback beneath!
Probably the proper bandsaw mud assortment shroud
I don’t have an precise mud collector. For years now, mud assortment in my store has been a Festool CT36 and an extended hose. Just lately I added a second mud extractor that’s devoted to my disc sander and bandsaw. Since I’m restricted to low-volume high-pressure mud collectors, I’m a fan of making an attempt to seize mud proper on the supply. On a bandsaw, I can’t think about a greater approach of doing that than this shroud by Thingiverse person Bob 32. It will get the vacuum suction straight beneath the lower the place the mud is definitely being made. In my expertise, it really works as effectively—if not higher than—a big mud collector and a 4-inch line.
A greater hose clamp for versatile ducting
I desperately must print just a few of those for the Advantageous Woodworking store. Our mud assortment is primarily 4-inch versatile duct and I’ve not had good luck with common hose clamps preserving the ducting connected to among the machines. The issue is {that a} hose clamp can’t compress the metallic reinforcement wire within the versatile hose, preserving you from with the ability to totally tighten it across the becoming. YouTuber Marius Hornberger created this printable hose clamp that jumps over the reinforcement wire and permits the versatile a part of the hose to really tighten across the becoming. Marius’s video on 3d printing is probably going what lastly pushed me off the fence and shopping for my first 3d printer.
Drill press mud assortment the place you want it
Talking of Marius, he created a big “Loc-Line” type segmented ducting that may transfer any which approach and keep the place you place it. I’ve bought a 2 1/2-inch model from Loc-Line however discovered that the massive inlet funnel despatched by Loc-Line and in Marius’s video just isn’t best for many makes use of because it doesn’t focus the suction the place you want it. Thingiverse person, Lazershrimp created this flat funnel model that may be very intriguing.
Here’s a related take that clamps onto a tabletop by Thingiverse person Komitadjie.
Flooring sweep for the optimistic
One other factor I want so as to add to the FW store. Some folks down there have a foul behavior of sweeping the mud on the ground into giant piles after which by no means choosing up the piles. Me… I’m the one who does that. Perhaps if there was a simple place to brush every thing the place will probably be magically sucked into the mud collector I’d simply have an opportunity. One facet of this mannequin like is that the creator, DuncanJB, took the time so as to add a “comb” to the highest to make it simpler to get that bizarre hand aircraft shaving unstuck from the broom.
With a parametric mud port adapter it’s precisely the adapter you wanted
The final mannequin I wish to share is probably going crucial. So many fashions shared on-line are extremely particular to a device. That’s the fantastic thing about 3d printing, you’re not restricted to a generic adapter that works on many instruments. Harmo_hammer created a parametric mannequin the place you may simply enter the sizes you want and the mannequin is routinely up to date. Ship it to your printer and stroll away. Not like the opposite fashions I’ve shared, this one requires utilizing Fusion 360 to alter the parameters of the mannequin, however it’s effectively well worth the trouble of downloading the free personal-use model and messing round with it.
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