8 holes Birdhouse
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This house is made to slide over a ¾” conduit tubing. It is designed with thick walls for strength and durability. I wanted to be strong and avoid any flexing when assembled. I printed mine in PETG. Be prepared to use 6 or 7 rolls of filament. I know, it’s not cheap to build but it is cool. This can be built with 1 or 2 floors or more. All the pieces can be printed on smaller printers except the roof. I have an ender 5 plus so it does fit on my bed. I have included the step file for the roof for those who wish to modify it to fit their printers. You will need to print 4 bh3-1, 4 bh3-2, 8 BH#front,8 railings, 8 windows 1, 4 finial 1, 6 finial 2 and 1 finial 3. You will also need 4 pieces of ¼ 20 threaded rod, and 1 ¼ inch bolt and nut. I used superglue gel from dollar store to glue the parts together. There are left and right part for the boxes as I wanted to print mine with staggered balconies. The bottom gets glued to one of the floor as the base I drilled for ¼ inch bolt lower to the ground so when it’s time to clean it I can just lower the whole thing on the tubing for easy disassembling and cleaning of the house while standing on the ground. Slide the parts over the tubing and assemble them with the ¼ inch threaded rods. Mount finial 3 to the top of the pole. (finial it’s meant to fit tight. If too tight, warm up the pole tip and with a torch and slide the finial on. Note that the finial 3 does not get glued to the roof of the bird house. It’s just there for estatic once the house is raised to the top of the pole. Once all parts are assembled, raise it to the top of the pole touching the finial previously mounted at the top of the pole. Drill for a ¼ inch bolt at the bottom of the house and fasten it to the pole with ¼ inch bolt. When its time to clean the bird house, just remove the bottom bolt and lower the house onto the pole. Then remove the 4 finials and raise the roof and a floor to clean out the old nesting material. I used a piece of threaded rod with 2 finials to mount the house on the pole. NOTE: The roof as it is, will take little more than an entire roll to print. I realize that 90% into printing it. You can either redesign the whole thing or modify the step file to add voids into the model to save filament and probably printing time. Too late for me as I do not want to reprint this so I will use what I got and make it work. I am an amateur after all so I was bound to make a stupid mistake at some point. It will take approximately 10 days nonstop to print this. Enjoy.
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