Bait Station

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<p>This is an outdoor bait station designed to hold 9 1"x1"x1.5" bait blocks with a hole in the center. These are commonly found on Amazon and home stores, at least in the US.</p><p>It's sized for small rodents with the openings being about 2". It wouldn't be too hard to scale it up or down with the included Fusion 360 file. I haven't tested scaling in a slicer but that might work as well.</p><p>The threaded rods, washers and nuts are #8 imperial because that's what Home Depot had and I wanted to use something I could readily source. Anything of similar size should work fine.</p><p>The bolts and nuts for holding the lid are regular 3mm. I used some thumbscrew designs I found here or on Thingiverse. There are dozens to choose from. They're not needed, but I didn't want to bring hex wrenches to open these up and re-bait them.</p><p>No special requirements for printing. I used PLA. No supports are needed. Depending on your bridging the slots for the #8 nuts to secure the threaded rods might droop a bit and make insertion difficult.</p><p>I guestimate the cost to make is about $3-5. A base and lid take about 5 hours to print on the Bambu Lab X1C with normal settings. Takes less than an hour to assemble, easy to re-bait. The goal was to make something that could be made low-cost, low-hassle and easily replaced if destroyed be either wildlife or elements.</p>