Lawn Mower Phone Stand

prusaprinters

<p>Been starting to mow my own lawn lately to try to save some money and got pretty tired of having to fish my phone out of my pocket any time I wanted to change my music. So I designed and printed a phone stand. Works with a 22mm bar, but if yours is slightly a different size let me know. If there are enough request for a certain size, I can add some different sizes.</p> <p>Required Parts:</p> <p>4 x M5 - 20mm Screws<br/> 4 x M5 Nuts<br/> 4 x M3 - 20mm Screws<br/> 4 x M3 Nuts</p> <p>If vibration concerns you or becomes an issue, I recommend using lock washers, Loctite, or some glue to secure the nuts, but to date I have not had an issue.</p> <p>I printed this in white PLA to help mitigate the heat, but if you can, it'd probably be better to print in PETG. I mostly mow in the early morning and the late evenings when it isn't too hot, so I haven't had any issues. The phone is not actively secured, but after a few runs, I realized it wasn't necessary. The side walls are plenty high enough. I lowered the handle all the way to the ground and the phone didn't budge at all. The sun shroud also helped keep the phone inside.</p> <p>If you like this print and it's helped you, please please please remember to come back and rate this design. I really believe in the process here at PrusaPrinters, but it is so important to get reviews to get noticed and make this print visible to others. Also consider donating to my PayPal so I can keep doing more of this type of work, which I love.</p> <p>Let me know if you have any other questions, happy printing and happy mowing!</p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>Make sure to print the parts with the point of the teardrop shape pointing UP. This is designed to prevent drooping.</p> <p>For mechanical parts, strength can be improved by upping the number of perimeters (standard is 2, for strength I go to 3) and increasing the temperature (220C up from 210C). Higher temperature means more liquidity in the plastic, resulting in a better, stronger bond.</p> <p>For most of the parts, no supports are needed (assuming you have decent settings for bridging).</p> <p>Layer Height - 0.2mm<br/> Nozzle - 0.4mm<br/> Perimeters - 3<br/> Bottoms Layers - 4<br/> Top Layers - 5<br/> Infill - 20%<br/> Temperature - 220C<br/> Bed - 65C</p> <p>The <strong>2x2 bracket</strong> <em>does</em> require supports. With PrusaSlicer I used:</p> <p>Contact Z Distance - 0.2mm<br/> Pattern spacing - 2mm<br/> Interface layers - 2<br/> Interface Pattern Spacing - 0.2mm<br/> XY seperation from Object - 50%</p> <p>It required a little elbow grease to remove the supports, but with some pliers and an exacto knife, I got it cleared. It just needs to be cleared enough to fit with the other parts. A tight fit is good.</p>