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.

  • DABDAEnglish
    500·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • charlesEnglish
      360·
      7 months ago

      This scares the hell out of me. Too much risk of damage. Heat, weight, and time.

    • IMALlamaOPEnglish
      130·
      7 months ago

      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.

    • einlanderEnglish
      70·
      7 months ago

      As long as it’s not pla. That’s a ticking time bomb.

      • IMALlamaOPEnglish
        50·
        7 months ago

        It’s ASA, should be more than fine :)

    • owenEnglish
      50·
      7 months ago

      I think it looks fine, the layers are aligned appropriately and it seems at least 5mm thick

      • Jayb151English
        41·
        7 months ago

        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.

    • KickMeElmoEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

      He said in another spot that it’s ASA.

    • IMALlamaOPEnglish
      120·
      7 months ago

      Totally agree in the long term. For the time being, I’ve been focusing a bit more on posting in general interest communities. Even larger communities, like this one, aren’t that active. I think this was the first post in 24 hours and a good day is something like 3 posts. Fragmenting conversation and duplicating posts probably isn’t the answer - at least not right now.

      See also: fixmyprint, Vorondesign, etc. I was fairly active in both on Reddit, but they’re ghost towns here and most of the content that would have gone there on Reddit is in this single community instead.

      That said, feel free to crosspost if you like.

      • EmilieEvansEnglish
        40·
        7 months ago

        Much quieter than it was a few months ago.

  • WhitebrowEnglish
    90·
    7 months ago

    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

    • IMALlamaOPEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

      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…

  • jimmycrackcrackEnglish
    80·
    7 months ago

    Reminds me of the PS2 with it’s blue triangular stand.

  • owenEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    I like the color! Honestly thought they were painted at first glance

    • IMALlamaOPEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • nrezcmEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    Looks great! If I had a 3d printer I’d probably try doing the same with my 916+.

  • stevedidwhat_infosecEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    Keep that friendo updated and your net locked down! Synology seems to have a habit 😂

    • IMALlamaOPEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

      ? Looks like your post ended too soon.

      My Synology can access the Internet, but I don’t have any ports forwarded to it.