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Mechani-Valve Box
🕑 Added 2021-01-09 16:00:01 +0000 UTCHowdy, wonderful people!
This one should look familiar! Yep, it's the Mechani-Bow Box made less festive. And even more industrial! Taking the place of the already mechanical-looking bow is a classic valve handle. Those handles are, of course, usually a web of struts, but that wouldn't work well for printing. So, I aimed to come up with a solid, easily-printable representation that still captured the essence of the classic shape.
Now, the body objects are still the same models from the Mechani-Bow version, though they're copied over to the Mechani-Valve directory for ease of access. If you already have a Mechani-Bow box, though, this new lid will fit on that.
Printing Tips
As always with articulated models, make sure your bottom layer is dialled in, and that there are no print artifacts like stringing or overextrusion that might cause moving parts to bind together!
As with the Mechani-Bow Box, the lid and box body both print bottom-down, like so:
File Location
You'll find this on Dropbox under 782 Mechani-Valve Box
(Dropbox link post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dropbox-and-are-31697592 )
Further Thoughts
I always intended to swap out the bow, but I had no idea what the new version would actually be. Now that the valve handle is in place, though, I can't possibly imagine anything else being there. It just fits well :)
This one's still a big print, of course, and that was the intention from the start, to make a large (by single-body printing standards) storage box. However, if you were able to scale the Mechani-Bow Box down a bit, you'll be able to do the same with this one.
Have fun!
xoxo
Sven.
Comments
Clockspring3D
Haha, that's fantastic! π
Printed the "large" box. It *only* took 58 hours. Came out beautifully though!
Clockspring3D
Fantastic! And yep, the "small" one is still pretty big π
Printed the "small" (aka shortest) one, took a while, but gorgeous! Love this design!
Clockspring3D
Yay! π Discord is a great place to share pics
Peter Laucella
Just finished this print. Came out really nice.
Clockspring3D
Haha, I'm tempted to use that handle on everything now!
Clockspring3D
Thanks Cathy, I did indeed! I'm glad you got at least one printer back up and running! :D
Clockspring3D
Haha, I should have read this before I replied to the last comment :P
Clockspring3D
Yep, the boxes only differ in height, so the lid sits on top the same way on all of them :)
Clockspring3D
Thanks! Making them print easily is a really fun challenge :D
Clockspring3D
Thank you, I very much did! :D
Cathy O'Malley
It's great lid and that would be good for other projects.
Cathy O'Malley
Awesome, I have printed the box twice. One for a present and one for me. So I only have to print the lid now that one of my printers is fixed and working. I hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family.
Michael Schecker
sooooo nice
ignore question, realsied its the height
quick ask as im a tad confused...there are different sized boxs , but only one lid in the dropbox?, so does the one lid fit all boxes?
Steve Smith
Awesome!
I am always amazed at how you design this boxes and they print so smooth!
Filament Stories
Love it! We all miss you. I hope youβre having a fantastic hiking adventure.
