what do you use to add weight?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨3dprinting@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve never found an elegant solution to add weight to prints. What are your favorite ways? What’s the best cost/weight ratio? Weight to space? Cost/weight/space balance?

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mortalic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I’ve been a fan of making false bottom pieces and using steel wheel weights in them.

Here’s a lamp I made as an example. Lamp1

Lamp2

Lamp3

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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Leave cavities for steel things like big bolts, shaped so the bolts won’t rattle around. Add a pause to the print before covering the cavities. Disable support for the cavities.

When the printer stops, stuff the cavities with bolts, then resume the print.

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I used wheel balancing weights (tiny 5g iron bars) and built them into my prints.

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neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I don’t know a general approach, but in one particular print with low infill I paused the print to pour in some sand just to make it more bottom heavy. While it worked great in that case, I don’t know how well it’d work in other circumstances. Great cost/weight ratio, though.

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