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3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Jun 25th, 2013, 1:21 pm
by KR2_Diving
Finally got my custom designed thruster housing completed!
Had a friend print them out on his home built 3D printer.
They took 6hrs each to print, but they look AMAZING!
Mark, if you stumble across this page, thanks a million!!
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Jun 27th, 2013, 8:53 am
by simpleben77
AWESOME!!!!
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Jul 1st, 2013, 5:04 pm
by autonomousROV
Looks great!
How thick are they and how strong are they? I've long thought about buying a 3D printer but didn't want to waste the money if they could not build pressure tollerant pieces (down to at least 200').
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Jul 16th, 2013, 1:57 pm
by fryslan76
Looks nice. I am wondering why you left so much clearance between the prop and the shroud? Don't you loose a lot of power that way?
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Jul 17th, 2013, 11:06 pm
by KR2_Diving
fryslan76 wrote:Looks nice. I am wondering why you left so much clearance between the prop and the shroud? Don't you loose a lot of power that way?
not sure how thrust will be affected, haven't had a chance to get these wet yet.
the design was suppose to be a bit tighter, but for some reason I thought I had 55mm props, when in fact I have 50... other then that, no real reason...
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Jul 23rd, 2013, 1:58 pm
by bikerbones1968
Ok Ryan I need 4 of those NOW!!! LOL Actually can you get the CAD file, .obj, .stl or whatever file was used to create that? I know a guy not far from me that has a 3D printer and makes custom RC parts for FPVers. I would love to get them printed out.
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Aug 20th, 2013, 11:09 pm
by fireslayer26
Yes yes, please share! Those look great! What was the cost?
Re: 3D Printed Thruster Housing
Posted: Sep 8th, 2013, 4:59 pm
by Gaby1723
that is awesome good work!