Tennis String Vibration Dampener with your LOGO!

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This design is for a tennis string vibration dampener that can be personalized with your unique EMBLEM. Customizing it is quite straightforward, simply open Customizer and upload your EMBLEM image! It makes for an excellent gadget, and actually serves as a valuable addition to your tennis racket. The dampener should be printed in flexible filament (I used NinjaFlex for mine), and the EMBLEM needs to be a 100x100 pixels black and white PNG picture. You can find several suitable images to use as EMBLEM in the image files of this Thing. It is possible to have the EMBLEM printed on just the top face or on both faces of the dampener. Printing on both faces requires a better calibrated printer, as support needs to be printed very close to the EMBLEM for the print to succeed. The files section contains examples of printable dampeners, both with EMBLEM on one face and on both faces. Instructions It is imperative to note that printing NinjaFlex or (I assume) other flexible filament is not akin to printing regular PLA or ABS. To ensure successful prints, you will have to slow down the printing process to account for the lesser amount of plastic that gets extruded. Also, I found it beneficial to decrease the flow rate of my extruder and increase the temperatures a bit. The prints shown in these images were made on an Arduino Materia 101 with white NinjaFlex, printing at 225°C with 0.2mm layer height, 100% linear infill and a 78% flow rate. Support must be printed, regardless of the choice to have the EMBLEM on just one or both faces of the dampener. Once printed, the dampeners can be colored using permanent markers.