Over the weekend, one of the amazing student Technologists, Link did a clean and reorganizing of the resin 3D printer station. The printer gives off some nasty fumes, so she was able to procure an air purifier set up just for such printers. Unfortunately, the model available doesn’t directly connect with our Prusa SL1S. Link put the air filter in place, but had to resort to duct tape to get it ti connect to the resin printer. It didn’t work.

So when I came in this morning and saw the need for an adapter to the adapter, I knew what I was going to do today!

I spent some time thinking about the best options. An insert with magnets? But how does the original adapter stay put on the new adapter?

Well, there are screw holes, how about using them? Yep, that’s the ticket. Basically replicate the bottom of the original adapter so it can screw to the new, then add a whole bunch of magnets!

And it worked on the first try! I had to double up the magnets in order to make it strong enough to stay on, and the gasket printed in TPU could be a little bit thicker. But it was a great success!

The models are available on Printables.com for download and 3D printing.