I liked a few of the VSOs that were posted earlier and wanted to share two of my more recent creations.
This mount screws into an exposed 2x4 and lets me get my Synology DS418, its power brick, and UPS (APC BE600M1) off a table and into a lower dust area of my basement.
I’ll upload the STLs to printables if anyone is interested, but be warned that the parts are fairly large.
In the spirit of showing parts under unflattering lighting, here’s (nearly) the same angle with a different light source.
What kind of filament is that printed with and are you concerned about it failing over time? Especially if there’s spinning disks in there I’d be paranoid as hell about it falling.
This scares the hell out of me. Too much risk of damage. Heat, weight, and time.
There’s basically no heat involved. It sounds like you’re worried about creap, which is totally fair and something to be aware of. The parts are printed out of ASA and are very overbuilt, so there shouldn’t be any cause for concern.
Creap video: https://youtu.be/88pk2cNOeGE?si=_JxBtYyYitBEin2Y
I’d print it but using ABS
It’s ASA, it’ll be fine :)
Yeah. That’ll be good.
This man has never heard of 3d2a :P
It’s printed out of ASA, which basically doesn’t creap. It’s also wayyyy overbuilt for the amount of weight it’s supporting. I’m not at all worried about it failing over time.
As long as it’s not pla. That’s a ticking time bomb.
It’s ASA, should be more than fine :)
I think it looks fine, the layers are aligned appropriately and it seems at least 5mm thick
I disagree. It seems that the letters are along where the stress is, which can eventually cause determination. This part scares me when you consider how important what it’s holding it’s.
Reminds me of the PS2 with it’s blue triangular stand.
Man, still have to get one of those
Looks fantastic. I recommend also printing a cover for the UPS sockets with removable covers for the plugs you wish to use as it looks like you have quite a bit of dust circulating there
Thanks! The NAS and UPS are now in a closet that’s fairly dust free. Before they were in my basement and fairly close to the cat box and my woodshop. Getting everything into the lower dust closet was one of my motivators.
I should probably blow the UPS off with my air compressor though…
Looks great! If I had a 3d printer I’d probably try doing the same with my 916+.
I like the color! Honestly thought they were painted at first glance
Thanks! It’s Polymaker ASA in blue.
I bought two 3 kg spools of it because it was fairly cheap (it’s always fairly cheap, but it was also on sale for $50), comes on a cardboard spool, and it prints fairly well. The vast majority of my prints are functional and I don’t really care what color they are.
That said, my surface finish is a out 100 times better on my Voron than it was on my old i3 clone. I suspect this is because my extruder doesn’t have a grub screw and is geared so it doesn’t rely on the stepper micro stepping. If you go back a little in my post history you can see an A/B between the two. If you have a direct drive ungeared extruder it might be worth looking at upgrading if you want to improve surface finish.
