"Airless" Ping Pong Ball - Table Tennis Ball by shawn.mek

shawn.mek

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X1 Carbon

P1S

P1P

X1E

A1 mini

0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

Designer

56 min

1 plate

4.8(328)

Smooth and Fast | 0.24mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

47 min

1 plate

4.9(64)

(PETG) 0.16mm layer, 4 walls, 15% infill

1.2 h

1 plate

4.7(30)

0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

1 h

1 plate

4.6(56)

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Description

An airless ping pong ball! Seen with some of my other ping pong machinations (https://makerworld.com/en/models/166872 & https://makerworld.com/en/models/207809).

Legal weight is theoretically slightly high (based on design program and slicer filament predictions), but I can't feel a difference (and can't weigh down to 2.7g - the slicer says over 3g)

Plays super well! Hasn't broken yet (like my pickleball which takes a little more abuse - https://makerworld.com/en/models/232041)

Is quieter than a normal ping pong ball, but similar feel.

When putting spin on the ball - the flight is fascinating compared to a regular ping pong ball.

V2 (2024_03_07)

Beefed up the thickness and opened up the hexagons/pentagons. More durable and better looking.

A little rough at top and bottom, maybe slow it down. But so far testing not showing much changes required in the future. Please let me know.

I tried the scaled profile to use this as a foosball and liked it enough that I worked on designing a more dense airless foosball (https://makerworld.com/en/models/245307)

Comment & Rating (539)

@Pyrobanane

Print Profile

(PETG) 0.16mm layer, 4 walls, 15% infill

works really well, but petg does not work as well as pla does, cause it breaks faster

The designer has replied

@KD3D

What brand of PETG did you use?

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@Pyrobanane

Replying to @KD3D :

Eryone PETG the print Quality of your profile is awesome though

(Edited)

@KD3D

Replying to @Pyrobanane :

iused premium brands like PolyLite and worked fine and had crazy hits on it.

(Edited)

@MateS2k

Amazing print! It's already approved by the cat

@g3n3zyp

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

pretty good, printed with petg already working

@goshaman

Pretty cool print! Using ESun Pla+, it seems to hold up pretty good!

@user_3897735002

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

Support ging gut zum entfernen. Spielt sich gut

@casey_b_hughes

yea em shoo gee mos Zum entfernman

@Hodzinets

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

Paused while printing and added a few bells, so my cat Love it to play.

@db77x1

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

very cool cat Tool 😎

@BossLarry

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Smooth and Fast | 0.24mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

Bounces great. PLA

@criss24x7

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0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

amazing design. thank you. it bounces very well.

@Pyrobanane

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0.2mm layer, 6 walls, 25% infill

worked great, quality was also perfect

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