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Balcony Planter Support
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This is a support for balcony planters. It's made of PETG because of it's higher temperature resistance. It can hold a full planter and probably also a small car. I went a little crazy with the strength as I had no idea how much weight it was going to support. Turns out it's a lot less than I estimated. Heck, PLA may be more than enough for this print! The design uses pins/dowels so that none of the parts are seeing any bending or moments, because printed plastics are known to creep (they deform/stretch over time). Since the parts only see tension or compression, it won't really matter if they do creep as you won't even notice. The dowels are printed with 100% infill. The other parts have 15% honeycomb infill and 4 walls for extra resistance (I told you I went a bit crazy). You'll need to print the following parts:6 x dowel pins2 x top supports2 x guardrail supports2 x L-shaped supportsThe assembly is very simple, just look at the photos. I use a small amount of
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