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Description
Self-watering device for houseplants
This device is designed to allow you to water your houseplants. Unlike just watering on the surface, this has two key benefits:
- Water is delivered down into the root-ball, where it is needed, rather than laying on the surface of the soil.
- Water is delivered slowly, rather than as a deluge that gets wasted as instant run-off. Just how slowly depends on your soil - if its dry or free-draining, it may just go straight in, but if it's moist and solid, the hydrostatic back-pressure will make it take longer. This particular design has some extra features:
To reduce loss caused by evaporation, the container at the top is mostly enclosed with a funnel lid: you pour water in, and most of it will be protected below the funnel surface and won't evaporate off before it is needed:
At the bottom, there are additional lateral holes. These ensure that when you push the device into the soil device doesn't get clogged up, which can be a problem with traditional designs that only have a single hole at the bottom.
A couple of bonus features:
The base of the funnel lid has a trap to prevent dirt getting into the main storage area.
The small hole near the top of the funnel is to let air escape from under the funnel lid as you fill it with water.
Printing notes
This prints without supports.
This prints well in PLA. You can scale it up if you want, but I wouldn't recommend printing it any smaller.
The dirt-trap at the base of the funnel may string a little bit as it prints, but this doesn't affect the print - and is actually helpful in keeping the dirt out!
The 3MF file settings include some brim. This is recommended to avoid the model getting knocked off the plate during printing, but may be a little fiddly to remove. (You can just leave the brim on the model - it looks good either way!)
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Membership
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License
You shall not share, sub-license, sell, rent, host, transfer, or distribute in any way the digital or 3D printed versions of this object, nor any other derivative work of this object in its digital or physical format (including - but not limited to - remixes of this object, and hosting on other digital platforms). The objects may not be used without permission in any way whatsoever in which you charge money, or collect fees.
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