TheClark Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 My trusty SRO XP3000 recently had a failure at the Bubble Blaster Pump after a good 5 years of service. The volute cover broke, which required ordering a new one from CoralVue. 25 bucks, and 20 shipping later... The new cover was a perfect match except where it connected to the skimmer. The manufacturer in this version had glued a metric threaded fitting on where the slip fitting should go. This in no way would fit my skimmer. So I fired up CAD and the 3d printer and built an adapter. This part adapts from the metric 50mm threads to the SRO slip fitting allowing the spendy replacement to be used. Next up, printing a new volute cover! So overpriced.... I put it out on thingiverse in case anyone else has this happen https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3138538 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertareef Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 This is where I see the value of home 3D printing for people like me who like to keep out of date gear running - reminds me I have a list of pet projects to run by you @TheClark 😄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 1 hour ago, albertareef said: This is where I see the value of home 3D printing for people like me who like to keep out of date gear running - reminds me I have a list of pet projects to run by you @TheClark 😄 Seems like there are many historical events happening in our lifetime. Open source + 3d printing is going to be huge in the physical world, like it was in the software world. Gee all this in one lifetime... Ya we can make some stuff, would be glad to give it a shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 Here it is in black doing it’s thang... Here it is ‘clear’ Stunned to see there were 39 downloads over the weekend. Really, really surprised. Glad it is helping people! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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