Windspinner Hummingbird pre-supported

The hummingbird is a tiny bird that, like a bee, flies diligently to the flowers and nibbles on their honey. It can stay in the air and approach carefully.

Here I am exhibiting my new wind spinner hummingbird. It has a body and two wings that can be attached to the body with nails as axles. The wings soon turn quickly in the wind and turn the parts into a lively little fellow that will delight everyone. You can see some of these figures in action in the Utube video. It also contains a description of how to assemble them:

https://youtu.be/z91uL54ayAk

You can also scale the parts. But then you have to adjust the holes accordingly.

You can paint the little bird as you wish and get a very beautiful and cheerful little friend for your house or garden. It is best to hang the wind chime on a nylon thread, for example on a fishing line. This is very stable.

Assembly is quite simple. You need 2 nails, 2 mm thick. Insert them into the holes in the wings with a drop of oil and press them into the holes in the bird's body. The feathers must point outwards. Attach a nylon thread to the eyelet and hang the beautiful piece outside the window or on a tree. You can also take it for a walk by tying it to the end of a stick.

I have designed the 3 parts once on their own and once with a prefabricated support. These work very well for me for both the FDM and also for the resin printing process. PLA or standard resins are suitable for printing. The spinner is about 16 cm long.

For FDM:

Layer thickness: 0.1 mm, (little rework, good surface and less grinding required.)

Printing temperature 200 °

Print bed temperature of 60 °

Printing speed: 70 mm

Speed outer wall: 20 mm

Flow: 100%

Wall thickness: 15mm! Why? The body must be printed solid for weight reasons! This means that the entire mold does not need a wall or filling.

Printing plate adhesion Brim / 15 mm wide

No Filling

Please make sure that the bed adhesion is good. On the finished model, simply remove the support rods and sand off the residue.

The settings for resin printing depend on the properties of your printer. Standard resins are suitable.

I have 2 printers in operation:

For FDM: Ultimaker 3 Extended (PLA works very well here),

and for resin: Phrozen Transform Fast.

Both are excellent devices.