Vibration absorber, fully customizable

thingiverse

A user-friendly vibration damper/spring, fully customizable with credit given to Bagelturf for the original design. The link is available on Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:39963. Since adjusting this design within my capabilities was not feasible, I created a completely customizable OpenSCAD file that can be easily adjusted using the Customizer app on Thingiverse. Adjusting it directly in OpenSCAD is also possible. Changing the ring thickness, adding more layers or reducing vertical walls (bridging) makes the damper more effective at absorbing vibrations but weaker. The opposite approach results in a less springy but stronger design. To calculate the height of the spring, use the formula Height = nlayers * heightlayer + thickring. The included STL file, with standard values set in customizer, is strong enough to support a Tevo Tornado printer after testing. I will soon share a simple and nice design for printer legs/feet using this spring, so stay tuned! Update: You can find applications of these dampers at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3880455 and https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3798349. For another approach to absorbing vibrations, see https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2944265. Happy customizing, springing, and absorbing! Designed in OpenScad. Sliced in Slic3r. Important: use concentric infill. More information about the fantastic and challenging program OpenScad can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual.