Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Worlds collide

 I've had this 3D printing habit for the past 22 months, and unlike a lot of people who spend their time designing and printing incredible fantasy miniatures, COSPlay helmets and other fun stuff, mine have mostly printed larger partsd - masks, bits for equipment, bike parts, and  oddball functional bits.

One item for the trailer build is end caps for the frame tubes.  The *last* thing I want is a mouse/squirell doing to my trailer wiring what the little terrorists did to my ABS (1200 bucks to find and repair the short, thank you very much...)   Also, who needs to provide a crash pad for a bunch of wasps???

I prototyped this a few weeks back, and tonight printed the first one to check tightness.  These are printed in TPU - a somewhat flexible material.  I'll print additional versions with an angled entry to feed the wire  bundle forward to the 'black box'.  

And a small plug for Swampwerks - these are available for sale, customized to your application.  DM me for more info.

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