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Branch Tube!
🕑 Added 2020-07-08 17:06:23 +0000 UTCHowdy, wonderful people!
I can't deny it, I love assembling things! It's the reason we have designs such as the bolted polyhedra and the epicyclic kaleidocycle - I really like putting stuff together. And this storage tube/caddy/thing very much comes from the same place. These are big, substantial elements, though, no little bolts here!
Initially, I was just planning to make a tube with a base and a lid, but somehow the idea of splitting the tube into two directions got stuck in my brain, and that led to adding a flanged base that supported it better.
There are six components:
* A closed base.
* A closed base with a wide supporting flange.
* The main tube segment
* The branching tube segment
* A closed lid
* An open "lid" that provides a neat rim
Printing Tips
These should all be pretty easy prints! No supports needed. The branch tube itself is probably the only one with any "tricky" parts, those being the inside top arch and the lower parts of the threads, since they're on a bit of an angle. Even those bits shouldn't cause too much concern, though.
Orientation is like so:
File Location
These files are all on dropbox under 814 Branch Tube
Dimensions
The internal diameter of the tube is 50mm
Final Thoughts
The lines that decorate the sides are unlikely to line up, and will in fact be differently aligned depending on the characteristics of the prints. I was planning to change the pattern to a much finer one that wouldn't show such misalignment, but then I grew fond of my test prints and decided to just leave it exactly like it is now :)
Enjoy!
xoxo
Sven.
Comments
Clockspring3D
Hmm, I'm not familiar with that! Do you have a link I could check out? 😊
nice job. I am doing a project with octoprin with MCU. I would be missing in your box a place for the MCU. How could we make more space for it? to be +20😝👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jonathan Murray
Printed a piece full size to see, and a bit bigger than I'd like. Printing another overnight at 90%. Should be about right! Thank you for the longer tubes!
Clockspring3D
Absolutely! Do it, do it! :D
Genius!!! Love it!!! ❤ Would it be possible to keep connecting parts and make a tree like sculpture that store things? 🌳🖍✏:)
Clockspring3D
Dimensions! The internal diameter is 50mm. That said, it should be possible to scale things down a bit if you wanted to, the thread tolerance is fairly generous. Longer tubes are easy! The standard tube piece is 30mm, but I've added 50mm, 70mm, 90mm and 110mm as well and they're in the dropbox folder right now. Hope that helps! :)
Jonathan Murray
Can you share the inside dimension? Would it be too much to ask for a single longer middle section? Looking for a storage tube for poker chip sized game tokens. My own efforts were ... lacking :/
