This is such a great solution man! I’ve been trying to find the perfect 3D printed lens cap and this is perfect. Really great tutorial too, honestly gets me excited.
It looks really good. Sadly, I printed the 49mm version several times but I cannot make the moving parts separated along the Y axis. I calibrated the printed (bed, and steppers) and still not working. Any ideas about what I've been doing wrong? Thanks!
Well, I tried the 49mm cap and found that the slots for the ends are both too narrow and not not long enough for my clip. All the pocket that the other end of the clip goes in is too narrow and when forced it breaks the walls of the pocket. I also tried the 58mm size and had the same problem with the pocket. My clip wire is 1.2mm in diameter and the spring end is 12mm. I like the idea but these just don't work for me.
thanks for your comment, I just tried to download the file and it opens right. Please try to download it again, maybe something went wrong while it was downloading, or try to use another app to uncompress on MacOS.
The single layer gap between the sliders and cap body would probably be better off as a two layer gap at least, or printing the sliders as entirely separate pieces to be installed atferwards. With the single layer gap, the sliders bond to the cap body so strongly that flexing the cap to release them as shown in the video results in the cap body snapping before the sliders separate from the cap body. Dropping from 0.2mm layers to a 0.1mm layer height and cutting print speed in half (to allow greater layer cooling time) did not help in preventing the layers bonding.
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This is such a great solution man! I’ve been trying to find the perfect 3D printed lens cap and this is perfect. Really great tutorial too, honestly gets me excited.
That's really clever, definitely trying this one, thank you
Great idea! I dismantled two springs from a ballpoint pen.
Yeah I did the but I didn't have enough pens for all my old lenses 😅
Came here from Hackaday.
Nice work! These look good. I'll have to give one a try on my printer...
Any chance of a Nikon F-Mount rear cap?
Was thinking the same thing as I always misplace those
Thanks!!! Sure I will upload one for Nikon too.
Neither of the files available at the link match this video.
Cool!
Thanks for the comment!!!
very nice trick with the paper clip :) Love it.
I just got your files and they're really neat. How about a Sony E Mount cap?
It looks really good. Sadly, I printed the 49mm version several times but I cannot make the moving parts separated along the Y axis. I calibrated the printed (bed, and steppers) and still not working. Any ideas about what I've been doing wrong? Thanks!
Awesome!! Any chance of a Camera Body cap for Canon EF ? (Maybe also customized?)
Sure, I will upload a cap for the body
@@DSLRDIYCNC Thank you so much !! :):):)
Great job. Would love to see a Canon RF rear lens cap
Thanks! I will try to make one for RF lenses
This project is great, I've got my first one on the printer now (in matte green). Any chance of a MFT body cap? I'd like one from my bmpcc4k lenses.
I meant MFT rear cap :-)
Thanks! I will try to upload rear cap for MFT
@@DSLRDIYCNC that would be great!
Would be great to have to L-mount cap
I would try to do one, I have no L mount lenses
Anyone able to get these to snap apart I have been unable to change anything to get these to not be stuck together
Fuji cap
Well, I tried the 49mm cap and found that the slots for the ends are both too narrow and not not long enough for my clip. All the pocket that the other end of the clip goes in is too narrow and when forced it breaks the walls of the pocket. I also tried the 58mm size and had the same problem with the pocket. My clip wire is 1.2mm in diameter and the spring end is 12mm. I like the idea but these just don't work for me.
Thanks for the feedback, I will increase the space in the pockets.
@@DSLRDIYCNC Thanks and let me know when they are updated. I would love to try again.
@@DSLRDIYCNC Did you ever update the files with bigger pockets to accommodate the bigger clips that some have found?
@Vaughn D. Taylor Are you doing all of the sizes? If so would you please post them somewhere?
@@johnjudge8861 Doesnt look like it sadly....wish i could find springs that worked :(
I just downloaded the rar-file and my computer, a Mac, says it is corrupt!
thanks for your comment, I just tried to download the file and it opens right. Please try to download it again, maybe something went wrong while it was downloading, or try to use another app to uncompress on MacOS.
@@DSLRDIYCNC Thanks, used another app and it opened like it should.
The single layer gap between the sliders and cap body would probably be better off as a two layer gap at least, or printing the sliders as entirely separate pieces to be installed atferwards. With the single layer gap, the sliders bond to the cap body so strongly that flexing the cap to release them as shown in the video results in the cap body snapping before the sliders separate from the cap body. Dropping from 0.2mm layers to a 0.1mm layer height and cutting print speed in half (to allow greater layer cooling time) did not help in preventing the layers bonding.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try to update an alternative models with 0.4 gap
So I tested out the 58mm cap print first. was unable to fit the whole clip into the back.
I also want to say that the grip part of the lens cap being sloped makes it a bit tricky to grip. I'd suggest making it flat.