I’ve teased with a few parts on here before, and I decided to rebuild my current slime blower using my printed parts. I still have a ways to go, but wanted a place to document my progress.
Slime Blower gun:
started with the nose cone. I wanted this to be once piece, but the size of the piece relative to my printed made me split it:
Glue together
Print an Endcap
and start on the black boxes for the gun. These had to be split because of geometry, not size constraints
Very nice!
Beautiful!
Neat! Looking forward to seeing this progress.
How many printed parts do you figure you’ll end up using? Regardless, it’s looking promising so far! It’s neat to see parts being made using relatively new technology; 3D printing just zings way over my head! :mrgreen:
Gun with the 2 boxes and end cap installed
Finally with the nosecone installed
More to come this week (including detailed shots of components)
Number of 3d parts…
On the gun:
Nosecone
Long box
Small box
End cap
Random internals
Tanks:
(6x) Hemispheres for all three tanks
Other:
(2x) pump boxes
(2x) heat sinks
Nose cone close up
Bayonet mount on gun body for quick disconnect
And a closeup of the locking la on the nose cone
That is amazing work.
Finished product!
Very, very nice work.
Thank you very much!
One thing that worked really well were the hoses I found. The main hoses were sump-pump hoses (1.25" diameter), they had the right ribbing, despite not being cloth covered like the real things… I suppose you could shrink some fabric around them for the perfect look, but I think they’re pretty good as they are: nice and flexible/lightweight. the hose coming out of the bottom of the gun was a 1.5" diameter shop-vac hose, with a smaller plastic tube running through it that the quick disconnect could connect to