Vevor Diesel Heater Feet Stand Platform 5kw 8kw

About

It gets pretty cold where I live and the heater I bought wasnt cutting it. Everyone has one of these diesel heaters according to youtube, so I decided to try one. 

The intake and exhaust come out of the bottom and if you dont put it on a stand, that makes for an extreme angle on the exhaust. Would it be fine? Im sure. Was this an excuse to over engineer the feet? yes. 

Could this be designed better? absolutely. I got to a point where I said, ' Eh good enough, I have other things to do'. The step files are included which will make your printer print the round parts better, and you can edit if you want.

Fitment

If your mount holes are 80mm apart, this will probably work for you.

There are two versions of the file, one with the extended locator for the chamfered edges. The jungle site tells me there are versions without those edges cut off, red ones, orange ones, white ones, etc. So if you dont have the round edges print the flat one. Or if you do have the rounded edges and you dont want supports, print the flat one top down

Printing

I would make this out of PETG minimally. PLA is kinda just bubblegum and given that this thing is a heater, I would not want the feet melting.

Dont make it from PLA.

2-3 walls should be more than enough. I used 20% gyroid infill and that was probably overkill. The ribs make it pretty sturdy. 

I just turned on Tree supports and let it rip. Increase your bridge flow to 1.5 and be amazed at how well the supported areas turn out. Also check out some of the new posts here about perfecting bridges. You wont be able to print without support unless you use the version without locator and print upside down though. No good way to support the holes in the center. 

Its kind of a long print, you could definitely increase the layer height and let it go a bit faster.