Pergo 3 Inch Chlorine Tablet Spa Floater Ver 3

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Update: I successfully harnessed the multi-piece factor of this design. Yes! I encountered a block leak issue. It appears that I had a micro delamination during printing and one block developed a micro leak that manifested itself over its first week of floating. It was nice to simply reprint just one block and be back in action. Item #50 for me, woo-hoo! Version 3 consists of six printable pieces that can be printed in ABS, thus ensuring they last longer. The retainer by design is a tight fit, allowing the use of a scraper to pry the retainer up and let it rest into each of the four slots on the float blocks and the tablet box. Examine the parent items of this remix for a better understanding and history of this item. Print settings are extremely important. Print 10% infill!!!!! Solid plastic does not float! The lower you can print infill, the better. 2.0 mm shell/walls as any thinner will not be water-tight. --- at least five shells (.4 x 5 = 2.0mm or .8 x 3 = 2.4mm) I printed with both .4 mm and .8 mm nozzles, and both worked fine. The .4 mm version looks better; the .8 version takes one-quarter the time to print. PLA only lasts about three months before you will need another one. Recommend ABS or PETG. Even though the water is always 105F or less in a spa, unless you're making cream of brain soup! PLA slowly degrades with heated chlorine. Three-inch pool tablets are cheaper than one-inch tablets sold for spa use. Fifty pounds can cost about $143 versus $99-111 for the same weight of three-inch tablets. After my tests, the three-inch tablets even seem to last longer. I put a tremendous amount of work into this floater, considering that a three-inch tablet is designed for 5000 gallons of water and my Fourwinds hot tub at 94" x 94" is only 550 gallons. Yes, it's big - one! Start out with one hole drilled initially. After two weeks if you don't get enough chlorine in the water, move to a second hole. Keep the holes in the corners so that the tablet does not obstruct them. I didn't experience gunk clogging the holes like I expected; remember that tablets have stabilizer in them. This additive is put into the water so that the chlorine does not evaporate too quickly. Both sun and heated water make chlorine evaporate faster. Notes: Researching prices for the best deal on tablets led me to see many complaints of faster-dissolving tablets (poor quality) or arrival as power or all broken tablets. I found the best deal, even including numerous internet searches, was at Sam's Club, where I could walk up, open the container, and check for broken tablets, taking them home right then. Sam's sells a 40-pound bucket for about $81-84, which adjusted for fifty pounds pricing makes it about $111/50 pounds, with none of the tablets being broken. I placed one tablet in and went on a nine-day vacation; upon my return, I found a sparkling clean hot tub with still fifteen to twenty millimeters of tablet left! This thing works better than I designed for. Over time, I see that I'm getting about two-and-a-half weeks on each tablet with two holes drilled. (c)2016 Pergo If you purchased this item from anywhere, contact me! The item is clearly marked as Non-Commercial.