Indoor or outdoor desk or tabletop lantern, or foot path stake lantern. Its customizable and up to you. Several design cuttout options for interesting light patterns or solid if you'd like a more water tight solution. If you build the tabletop lantern only a solar replacement top is needed, if you use the stake in the profile a nut and bolt needed with the measurements below.
🔧 Base Requirements
- If using the included stake from the designer profile:
- Base thickness: 5mm
- Base hole diameter: 10mm
- Refer to the parametric model descriptions for guidance on adjusting the base.
🛠️ Materials Needed
- 1/4 inch bolt, length: 1.5 to 2 inches
- An M6 bolt (length: 38mm to 50mm) may also work, as long as it's narrower than the spacer washer
- Matching nut
- Round solar light replacement top
- If you'd like to use the same model shown, it was 73mm in diameter:
👉 Amazon link
🧩 Assembly Instructions: Desk Lantern
- 3D print the following parts:
- Print your Custom designed Light
- Press in your solar replacement top.
🧩 Assembly Instructions: Stake Path Light
- 3D print the following parts:
- Stake
- Collar
- Spacer
- Your Custom designed Light (with correct Base Requirements)
- Insert the nut into the rectangular cavity at the top of the stake.
- Slide the collar over the top of the stake.
- Insert the bolt into the spacer (wide side toward the bolt head).
- Slot the spacer and bolt into the base hole on the inside of the solar light top.
- Line up the spacer and bolt with the top of the stake and lock the top into place.
- Secure by snugly screwing the nut and bolt together.
- Press in your solar replacement top.
🌦️ Optional Upgrade
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