I have read of the joint at the end of the Anafi's leg above the foot being a weak point and that some people having to resort to gluing it together after a hard landing which broke the clip. I did look at buying the 'Landing Leg Protectors, from Dirty J Designs but they wanted $13 to ship a $10 part to the UK. As I have a 3D printer I looked on Thingiverse, which is a depository for 3D designs, and found a similar thing. I printed it out but I was still not happy with the design and the fact that it was quite heavy and covered the rubber feet. As I print in ABS this would mean that I would have reduced friction between the Anafi and the landing surface.
It was then that my mechanical engineering design background took over and I decided to try to design and print a different version. Looking at the Anafi I found that the feet have cutouts that are tapezoid in shape (the long sides are not quite parrallel) near to the joint. I thought that I could use these to support the weak joint and after a number of prototypes where I refined the dimensions i have ended up with a design that I think looks good, should work and is lighter than other designs (each support weighs 1.4g - 0.05oz each). I would be interested in how much the Dirty J Design Leg Protectors weigh. I used an Acetone cold vapour smoothing process to remove the layer lines from the print and end up with a glossy surface. What are the forum members views on my design? Do you like it and do you have any suggestions as to how it can be improved?
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Previously I have also designed a support for my phone that slips over the controller's arm and stops the phone coming lose at the bottom. When I removed the weights from the controller I found that it tipped over when set down so I created a verion 2 that has legs to prevent this. These work well and I am always looking for new things to 3D print.
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