Wind Indicator With Handle 3D Printer Model

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License: CC BY-SA
File formats: stl
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Size:763.4KB

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Summary

Was looking for a wind indicator for our team of mark layers who lay our marker buoys for sailboat racing. Found lots of wind indicators and printed them. All I can say is a lot of them just didn't work - those with trianglar arrows on the vane were just completely unstable and unusable. This one with the blunt nose was stable in use but lacked a handle - hence the remix. Had to draw it again from scratch and played with the infill to get the balance right.
Printed in PLA - the vane has 50% infill to make it balance. The handle is closed so the whole thing floats if dropped overboard. May need a little sanding of the pivot to let it rotate freely. The cap is glued on with a single drop of superglue.
Thanks to Aardvarrx55 for thre original design.
The yellow one is the final design with the closed base to make it float.

cap.stl 46.8KB
Handle_Closed.stl 301.1KB
RG_Wind_Indicator.stl 2.1MB

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