Hi all,
Dropped in and created an account to provide a link to a design I've been working on as a hobby since opening and breaking a cap this past weekend. The design is fully 3D printed at home. This is a direct but enhanced replacement for my old caps which are rotting away slowly. Part number(s) are 16263, 16262 for the main cap of my 24' above ground pool. I do not know the manufacturer as the pool came with the house and is probably 20 years old. I just reverse engineered it with the dimensions from an old one and iterated a few times to get it acceptable.
Picture of the current iteration is below. I've added a phone holder and cup holder as optional "modular" accessories, which are also included on the link further down.
Anyway, here's the link to the design on printables, which is a collaboration site for people who use 3D printers. More info on the link of course.
Depending on how many of these you need, you may be able to justify getting yourself a 3D printer. Mine would have been $540+ to replace all 18, which need a top and bottom part at $14.99/ea. I print with an AnkerMake M5 printer we got around Christmas for the family, but I'd assume you could do this with almost any home 3D printer as long as the piece fits on the bed (190x170x210mm as the current model sits). The main cap takes about 20 hours to print on this printer and uses about 550g of filament if you print it as a solid piece (100% infill). For reference, a 1kg spool of filament is about $20 on Amazon depending on various factors. Then lastly you can just print whatever cup holders or phone holders you want, slide them in and enjoy.
NO I AM NOT SELLING THEM, I'm just a former engineer with some time to tinker when not doing my day job.
I apologize if this looks like an advertisement or promotion. Mods feel free to remove it if so.
Happy to answer questions but I'm not a 3D printing expert.
-Bee Rad
Dropped in and created an account to provide a link to a design I've been working on as a hobby since opening and breaking a cap this past weekend. The design is fully 3D printed at home. This is a direct but enhanced replacement for my old caps which are rotting away slowly. Part number(s) are 16263, 16262 for the main cap of my 24' above ground pool. I do not know the manufacturer as the pool came with the house and is probably 20 years old. I just reverse engineered it with the dimensions from an old one and iterated a few times to get it acceptable.
Picture of the current iteration is below. I've added a phone holder and cup holder as optional "modular" accessories, which are also included on the link further down.
Anyway, here's the link to the design on printables, which is a collaboration site for people who use 3D printers. More info on the link of course.
Depending on how many of these you need, you may be able to justify getting yourself a 3D printer. Mine would have been $540+ to replace all 18, which need a top and bottom part at $14.99/ea. I print with an AnkerMake M5 printer we got around Christmas for the family, but I'd assume you could do this with almost any home 3D printer as long as the piece fits on the bed (190x170x210mm as the current model sits). The main cap takes about 20 hours to print on this printer and uses about 550g of filament if you print it as a solid piece (100% infill). For reference, a 1kg spool of filament is about $20 on Amazon depending on various factors. Then lastly you can just print whatever cup holders or phone holders you want, slide them in and enjoy.
NO I AM NOT SELLING THEM, I'm just a former engineer with some time to tinker when not doing my day job.
I apologize if this looks like an advertisement or promotion. Mods feel free to remove it if so.
Happy to answer questions but I'm not a 3D printing expert.
-Bee Rad
