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[Spud Spudoni]

It's been waaaaay too long since I've posted a writeup here. Time to change that NOW.

 

 

In the past few months in selling my Aeon Pro Pump Upgrade Kit on Etsy, I had a few issues early on with the strength of the pumpgrip, which had a lot to do with the print orientation I chose. In order to reduce the 'Print-Zip' effect created from two 3d printed parts printed at the same orientation and sliding against each other perpendicular to that, that a lot of our community DESPISES, I printed my pump grip in a weaker orientation which caused some breaks from my buyers. Getting tired of printing replacement parts for my gracious customers who chose to take a chance on a new seller, I wanted to alleviate my problem. While I initially just buffed up the print, I just felt like the print orientation as a whole would be an issue under stronger spring loads. It took me some time, but I think I found a really cool solution that could be applied to future builds within our community: 

 

 

Pump Upgrade Kit in question (I really should probably make a little writeup for this on here too)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video of Pump grip Noise Comparisons.

 

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Edited by Spud Spudoni, 10 September 2021 - 03:54 PM.

[Silly]

Darn, people posting on NH a lot lately! I've got to get my printed Crossbow stuff up sometime soon. 

[Silly]

This is a very, very interesting system. I might have to explore doing something similar in some of my future designs.

[Spud Spudoni]

This is a very, very interesting system. I might have to explore doing something similar in some of my future designs.

I've been playing around with the idea in a few different projects to optimize print strength. The middle part here that covers over the breech in my kit is an example where the legs that kick out from the main body print best when the part is standing with the back facing down on the print bed, while the top of the part prints the strongest and easiest facing down on the print bed. Printing this orientation also doesn't require supports but again, the tiny legs that stick out become weaker. I can split this part into two sections that optimize both orientations and glue or fasten them together in post. I think there's many different ways of applying this multi-print orientation concept.

 

 

Darn, people posting on NH a lot lately! I've got to get my printed Crossbow stuff up sometime soon. 

Didn't you hear? Nerfhaven is cool again!

Edited by Spud Spudoni, 10 September 2021 - 04:58 PM.

[Silly]

 

 

Nerfhaven is cool again!

Did it ever cease being cool?

[Daniel Beaver]

Good approach. I wonder if you could cut out teflon inserts for those instead of printing the spacers?

[Spud Spudoni]

Good approach. I wonder if you could cut out teflon inserts for those instead of printing the spacers?

Teflon would no doubt be better, but would take more work to meet the same ends with having to cut the teflon to the right sizes to fit the required slots. I'd say if you were doing a one off build, that would be a great use case scenario, but doing it in bulk is more of a hassle. 

Edited by Spud Spudoni, 14 September 2021 - 02:30 PM.