Pergo Spa Filter Cage

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DIY Replacement Filter Cartridge. Darn pool and spa filters are costly. So, I created these affordable alternatives. Printed in two halves, fill with generic pillow filler or "poly fill," place both halves together, and insert into your pool/spa filter holder. You now have a budget-friendly replacement for those expensive pool filters. The filter this replaces is 127 mm in diameter with a 54 mm hole and 13.25" (336.55 mm) tall. You can print this if you can print something 170 mm tall. Some of the numbers this filter are known as: FC-2375 PRB25 C-4326 **YOU MUST PRINT IN ABS, or the cage will degrade in 1-3 months.** DO NOT try to use PLA. Print with a solid base on bed and turn on supports. I printed it, but due to retraction and slow printing (it took 26 hours to print), It didn't meet my expectations. I will be modifying the design to make it stronger. **UPDATE: New design, thicker, MUCH stronger.** This is an unconventional recipe for print settings! However, WOW, it printed incredibly! Printed in ABS using **Simplify3D users download the .fff profile to print from** [**ABS.8 (Pergo FilterPrint).fff**] profile that I printed with .8 mm nozzle 270C (Yes, that's right, 270c) .5 mm Layer height (Yes, software will complain about this layer height with .8 mm nozzle) ! NO Extraction ! (The stringing helped the print with supports) 30 mm/sec print speed Print was about 8 hrs. 231.5 g of filament 100% infill 3 shells (top, bottom & sides) 85c Bed temp, Layer 10-75c Layer 20-70c **!! Supports are ONLY every other layer!!** !Supports with a .8 mm nozzle every layer cause all kinds of problems! Printed on a Robo3D R1+ (e3Dv6 hotend) WITH NO PLASTIC or Heat cage! Using the 270c, I got a perfect print in open air and it's very strong. Quite a cleanup job popping out all those supports. But mission success, I have a filter in my spa now. Verify one layer of the base before committing to the full print. My 54 mm hole didn't fit on the 54 mm spindle. My printer needed calibration to get the size right. To give others some flexibility room, I changed the inner hole to 56 mm in the model. The original filters are slightly rubbery so they stretch a bit around the spindle, something that ABS can't do. I'm printing my second filter now. My spa uses two filters, so I have to print four of these.