Universal hose adapter & coupler & funnel, and a web service
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Published on July 1, 2012
Description
New: check the customizer version at thingiverse.com/thing:44850 !
This is a parametric hose coupler through a webservice. It can create STL files directly for adpators (adapters?) that couple two hoses or pipes. Hey, you can even make funnels with it!
Just provide your own dimensions and get the file!
This is a parametric hose coupler through a webservice. It can create STL files directly for adpators (adapters?) that couple two hoses or pipes. Hey, you can even make funnels with it!
Just provide your own dimensions and get the file!
Instructions
You could use the provided openscad file and tune it manually... but it will be much easier to get an STL with your settings through this webservice:
Just go to tecrd.com/page/liens/universal_hose_adapter&lang=fr
Enter your settings (see the image on the left side for some help), and press a button.
Update: Following esteadle's advice, I added so called parametric "barbs" (correct me if I'm wrong). A few parameters changed and the STL generation is now much faster (no more using openscad unions and so).
The shape of the main connection was redesigned a bit to make it stronger. Though, the best approach is to make it thicker when:
- the two cones have very different radii
- there is a big overhang (thin join makes tricky prints because it also flattens the internal angle). Another parameter would probably be useful to differentiate the two effects.
Trial and error seem to be the best way (so far)!
Hope it still is OK
As long as I have some CPU left the service is free and does not even require an email. Anyhow, please drop me a word if you find this useful, so I know if this kind of tool is worth the time spent on it ;)
Idem when you have some requests (eg. a handle for funnels?)
Note: I will probably change the URL when I'm done translating my website. As for now, it's an english page within a (mostly) french website, sorry guys!
Regards
Just go to tecrd.com/page/liens/universal_hose_adapter&lang=fr
Enter your settings (see the image on the left side for some help), and press a button.
Update: Following esteadle's advice, I added so called parametric "barbs" (correct me if I'm wrong). A few parameters changed and the STL generation is now much faster (no more using openscad unions and so).
The shape of the main connection was redesigned a bit to make it stronger. Though, the best approach is to make it thicker when:
- the two cones have very different radii
- there is a big overhang (thin join makes tricky prints because it also flattens the internal angle). Another parameter would probably be useful to differentiate the two effects.
Trial and error seem to be the best way (so far)!
Hope it still is OK
As long as I have some CPU left the service is free and does not even require an email. Anyhow, please drop me a word if you find this useful, so I know if this kind of tool is worth the time spent on it ;)
Idem when you have some requests (eg. a handle for funnels?)
Note: I will probably change the URL when I'm done translating my website. As for now, it's an english page within a (mostly) french website, sorry guys!
Regards
License
Universal hose adapter & coupler & funnel, and a web service by MoonCactus is licensed under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Creative Commons license.
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Oh, this is just great.
It happens that today, I needed a way to connect up a "Neat-O" brand chinese pump to a Coleman air mattress, with a fairly wide sized opening. Nothing included in any of the numerous pumps we have about the house would work either. So when I found this site I was very interested in trying this out
to see if I could make an adapter that would work.
It worked. Beautifully. Picture below.
Printed in Natural White at 20% fill; BP at 115, Extruders at 220, no raft).
I carefully measured the included adapters that came with the pump, and then measured the valve diameter and depth on the air
mattress using a steel ruler ( and converted to metric, too, heh). I figured out where i wanted the shoulder, and then generated the STL. Turned that into G-code with the latest version (0037) and it printed on the first try.
This website and programming are tres cool and you have done a great job
on. I would like to see this featured. 8-)
If you are insterested in suggestions for additional features, perhaps a way to add more conic sections to the adapter, so that one could created a barbed adapter, for example. Also, that would also allow a way to add some filets between annular sections,
for cases like mine where I set the big and small diameters to values that caused a steep edge to form, and that may end being a weak spot. A fillet would help to correct that.
Glad to know it suited you and thanks for the ideas. I've just added optional barbs to the cones :)
I updated the update description accordingly, thanks a lot!