Dragon Force 65 lie down stand adaptors (awesome of course)

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<p>Ever wish you had a stand that handles strong winds and don't want to lay your boat directly on the ground? Then you can try these adaptors that fit directly on the original DF65 stand.</p> <p>I have designed them differently for prow and stern parts of the boat, which is which is easy to see since it's printed on them.</p> <p>Remove the bottom parts of the stand and slide them on like in the images, put them on the same side as the lonely upper support rod.</p> <p>For best protection add some adhesive rubber on top, don't forget to put some on the stand as well.</p> <h3>Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Printer:</strong></p> <p>Tronxy</p> <p class="detail-setting rafts"><strong>Rafts: </strong> <div><p>Doesn't Matter</p></div> <p><strong>Supports:</strong></p> <p>No</p> <p class="detail-setting resolution"><strong>Resolution: </strong> <div><p>0.2mm</p></div> <p><strong>Infill:</strong></p> <p>20%</p> <p><strong>Filament:</strong></p> Doesn't matter PLA <p>Transparent</p> <p><br/> <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong></p> </p><div><p>PLA is probably not the best but it's what I can print without any problems so that's what I use!</p></div> Post-Printing ============= <p><strong>Important</strong></p> <div><p>Take a knife and trim inside the ends of the cylindrical hole, otherwise it will be very hard to fit the rod inside. You don't need to trim much.</p></div> How I Designed This =================== <p class="detail-caption"><strong>Preparing clay mould</strong></p> <p class="detail-title"><strong>Step 1. Making the adaptors</strong></p> <div><p>First I went with circular shapes and the idea was to have the same adaptor on both sides. It was not good enough so I decided to make the best possible fit by using model clay from my kids. </p> Here I have put a decent amount of clay on my first adaptors and pressed the hull against them really hard. <p>.</p> <p><strong>Finished mould</strong></p> <p><strong>Step 2. Mould done</strong></p> <p>Remove the boat and you get this.</p> <p><strong>Trimmed adaptors with clay</strong></p> <p><strong>Step 3. Getting the measurements</strong></p> <p>Next I cut of the excess clay and drew the outline on paper and cut them out.</p> <p>Now I needed mm-paper to get the measurements, unfortunately I had none but my old printer could print templates and the one with best resolution was 3x3 mm squares so I used that and measured the positions for a couple of points on the surface,</p> <p>Next I used polygon in OpenScad for the first time, it looked great the first try. I had to upscale all measurements with a factor 3 so the OpenScad files looks a bit weird.</p> <p><strong>First test, looks great!</strong></p> </div></p></p> Category: R/C Vehicles