I cant believe I designed yet another poop chute…… anyway. This is designed to facilitate managing fillament purges (poop) for printers on a rack with the collection below. It would also work with a printer on a table with a catch bin under the table
Design features.
- Magnetic mounting plate screws directly over the chute of the printer; insuring perfect alignment and easy removal every time.
- Uses readily available, durable, flexible tubing to direct purged filament into a catch basin under the table or at the bottom of the printer racks.
- Pass through chute allows stacked printers to share tubing and pathway to the catch point. ( you need 2.5" behind your storage racks or table)
- The tubing can be wedged into standard cereal bin lids that are frequently used for storing filament.
Items needed and instructions.
- Print test model to make sure the magnets fit firm. you can press fit them if you want but I like to glue them.
- Super glue that is a great value on amazon: https://amzn.to/3SRfurF
- Super Glue 8x3 magnets into the base plates and the chutes. Pay attention to polarity!
- I used these magnets. They ran short of 3mm in thickness. https://amzn.to/3OyeGpm
- Screw the base plates into the back of the printer. replacing the black screws that came on the printer with M3x8mm screws was necessary in my case.
- Attach 2.5" dust hose onto the chute using the clamps. Cut to length with a utility knife and side cutters. Continue as needed.
- I used this little kit which comes with clamps. https://amzn.to/49MmyvF . It will be plenty of tubing to do 4-6 printers, but you may need to buy more clamps if doing more than 2or 3 printers.
- If you want to use the cereal boxes rather than some other bin (like a cardboard box :D ) I have these and the tube could be squeezed into the lid. https://amzn.to/49sQ9d9