two-component foot for Subwoofers, Speakers or other Furniture

two-component foot for Subwoofers, Speakers or other Furniture

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BASE - 0.2mm layer, 5 walls, 25% infill
BASE - 0.2mm layer, 5 walls, 25% infill
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2 h
1 plate
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TPU TIP - 0.2mm layer, 3 walls, 40% infill
TPU TIP - 0.2mm layer, 3 walls, 40% infill
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1 plate

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I made these feet for my DIY downfiring subwoofer, I found commercial solutions lacking and printed solutions non-existent.

 

These feet work for subwoofers as well as other speakers, but depending on what you do they might even fit furniture pretty nicely.

 

To get some dampening, I decided for a two-component system with a solid base (e.g. printed in PLA or PETG) and a tip made of TPU. This tip also hides the screw, so it is invisible from the outside, three little nubs hold it in place (but it's easy enough to remove with a small flathead screw driver). This allows for a little splash of colour-contrast, but both printed in black will also look fine. The base features a little locator-hole for an M5 grub screw or 5mm dowel, this way the foot can't unscrew itself; this is completely optional though. The complete dimensions can be seen in the attached screenshot.

 

The main screw needs to be 40mm till it sticks out, so in most scenarios 45 to 50mm will suffice; it needs a countersunk head. M5 or 5mm wood screws work fine, any imperial equivalent will work as well.

 

 

I recommend gyroid infill of around 25-30% for the base - the TPU tip should be gyroid as well, depending on the shore value of your material and the dampening you prefer an infill of 40-50% might be a good starting point, but you may have to tweak it to your taste.

These settings are already in the supplied printing profiles; there's two different ones, for the base as well as the tip (unfortunately we can't set different printing profiles per plate inside a single .3mf)

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Any particular reason to use PETG over pla for the top part?
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degradation over time is the only one. I had some old parts break in nasty circumstances, and as speakers tend to stand "as is" for years to come, I'd play it safe. But that's maybe just being cautious, as lots of force is held by the screw in the middle
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Printed beautifully! It's unfortunate for the purpose of illustration that my PETG and TPU are about the same color here, but both printed well. This was my first TPU print, so I discovered that i had to disconnect the AMS for TPU. At any rate, all is well that ends well.
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BASE - 0.2mm layer, 5 walls, 25% infill
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