BALLDOGO Tennis balls organizer, based on #prusament spool

I designed BALLDOGO to keep my dog tennis balls in one place.

Print instructions

What do you need, to reproduce this model?

3D printer ;)

#prusament empty spool

15 M3x5 threaded inserts

11 M3x10 screws

4 M3x12 screws

about 20 cm elastic cord (4 mm diameter)

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Any special tools require?

You need to remove flanges from back and front spool wall. I used Dremel for that.
You will get dirty doing this. Where some gloves, protect mouth and eyes.

How to print?

I suggest to use PETG or similar (strong) filament. I used orange #prusament. All elements are supportless.. Any infill about 10% should be fine.

Is it difficult to assemble?

Most difficult to assemble, are threaded inserts. So you may practice first if you never used them before. For all other you need one Allen Key.

Any place for improvement?

Sure! I'm planning a release mechanism so your dog can pick up the ball on his own. Maybe a place for extra ball?

You have some ideas? Good!

I decided to publish the .step files and the source project. You can edit them and use them within the scope of the license visible at the bottom of this post.

Due to the size of the project file (70MB) I uploaded it to github.

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