A House Finch suffering from Finch Eye Disease prompted me to sterilize our feeder, which meant providing a temporary feeder to keep the birds flying. Having an abundance of lids from six gallon plastic cans / buckets, this made sense:
Can Lid Feeder – installed
Which required an adapter betwixt pole and lid:
Can Lid Feeder – assembled
Which requires a bit of solid modeling:
Can Lid Platform Feeder Mount – solid model – bottom
The lids have a central boss, presumably for stiffening, so the model includes a suitable recess:
Can Lid Platform Feeder Mount – solid model – support structure
As usual, automatically generated support fills the entire recess, so I designed a minimal support structure into the model and cracked it out with very little effort:
Can Lid Feeder – support structure
The tangle off to the right comes from a bridge layer with a hole in the middle, which never works well even with support:
Can Lid Platform Feeder Mount – Slic3r – bridge layer
Didn’t bother the birds in the least, though, so it’s all good.
I loves me my 3D printer …
The OpenSCAD source code as a GitHub Gist:
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