Cox Starter Battery Box Printable Templates

Congrats Jason, very classic and authentic!!

Good work Jason

Here is a link to the stl file for the battery box.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2803139

Jason_WI wrote:Here is a link to the stl file for the battery box.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2803139

Awesome! Will have to try this out on my printer when there is some spare time

That is awesome, Jason! Fantastic work that makes the nostalgic Cox nerd in me happy.

EXModelEngines wrote:

Jason_WI wrote:Here is a link to the stl file for the battery box.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2803139

Awesome! Will have to try this out on my printer when there is some spare time

I printed it out of PETG which has a higher glass transition than PLA. PETG is also fairly chemical resistant. For the wire I wrapped 3 loops of 24 awg tin coated hookup wire for each loop starting at the one furthest from the jack post protrusion. 22 AWG will work too but I had a spool of 24 on hand. Too thick of wire and the batteries will be difficult to install.

I used break away supports for the print to help with the jack post protrusions. It took about 3 hours to print.

The knobs I used above in the link didn't work very well as the M3 nuts fell right out. I may try this instead: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2177455

Levent Suberk wrote:Good work Jason

Thank you for providing the graphics to make this happen.

Jason_WI wrote:

EXModelEngines wrote:

Jason_WI wrote:Here is a link to the stl file for the battery box.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2803139

Awesome! Will have to try this out on my printer when there is some spare time

I printed it out of PETG which has a higher glass transition than PLA. PETG is also fairly chemical resistant. For the wire I wrapped 3 loops of 24 awg tin coated hookup wire for each loop starting at the one furthest from the jack post protrusion. 22 AWG will work too but I had a spool of 24 on hand. Too thick of wire and the batteries will be difficult to install.

I used break away supports for the print to help with the jack post protrusions. It took about 3 hours to print.

The knobs I used above in the link didn't work very well as the M3 nuts fell right out. I may try this instead: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2177455

Thanks. Would love to try this in nylon, but all that I have must go into the oven to remove moisture lol. I tried to print a 8cc plastic tank when fooling around with the STL, but didn't get the settings right and haven't had time to go back and mess around.

Matt

Darn that looks good. Wish I had me a 3d printer. Would be fun to play with it looks.

EXModelEngines wrote:

Thanks. Would love to try this in nylon, but all that I have must go into the oven to remove moisture lol. I tried to print a 8cc plastic tank when fooling around with the STL, but didn't get the settings right and haven't had time to go back and mess around.

Matt

I have printed with nylon and I know the pain to keeping it dry. I was looking at a Printdry filament dryer just for nylon. They sell on Amazon. Its basically a modified food dehydrator. I think it would work to maintain a certain level of dryness but not actually dry wet filament where hotter temps in an oven are required.

I print nylon at 280C with 110C bed temp direct on a piece of Garolite. It sticks to this pretty good. With the thin walls of this design it would be prone to warping and splitting.