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Dryer Vent Filter Snout: TPU Warp

Making the clothes dryer vent filter snout from TPU did not work nearly as well as I expected:

Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout - TPU warp
Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout – TPU warp

I think that’s the result of applying heat to a slightly compressed rear wall made of bendy plastic.

Making it from much stiffer white PETG required moving the front mounting tabs to the middle to allow enough bendiness to snap them into the vent:

Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout - OpenSCAD plan
Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout – slicer

Although both pieces barely fit on the MK4’s platform, I made the upper ring first to verify the fit:

Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout - slicer
Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout – slicer

If I ever make another, it’ll print as a single top-side-down unit, because the dimensions are now spot on.

From outside, it looks just like the TPU version:

Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout - PETG installed
Clothes Dryer Vent Filter Snout – PETG installed

The snood is a cheesecloth tube with shock cord holding it to the snout.

Comments

2 responses to “Dryer Vent Filter Snout: TPU Warp”

  1. Ken Davidson Avatar

    If you ever want to make it more heat resistant and very weather resistant, use ASA. You do need some higher temperatures plus a good ventilation system, though. I printed a replacement hood prop clip for my son’s car out of PETG and it kept breaking. I printed a few in ASA and he hasn’t had a failure yet.

    1. Ed Avatar

      I’ve heard good things about ASA, although it seems like a gateway drug leading to continuous printer modifications. On the upside, after having run far too much ABS through the old Thing-O-Matic, I’m either immune to the fumes or pretty nearly dead. :grin:

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