3D printed battery covers
Interesting idea, I applaud the effort.
Thanks Rich,
I have put 3 indents in the rear so that it needs some force on it to move it to a new position.
Looks great, well done!
3D printing has considerable potential for the manufacture of spare parts for cameras, especially the older mechanical ones.
I also wouldn't mind buying a few of these (seriously), I have three batteries for my K3. If you make some for sale, please let me know.
Pentax hybrid user - Digital K3 & K200D, film 645 and 35mm SLR and Pentax (&other) lenses adapted to Fuji X digital
Fan of DA limited and old manual lenses
It is interesting that the Shapeways design uses the cover one way or the other depending on whether you want to mark it as depleted or fresh. Do you use this feature?
Thinking about it now it can be done with the K-5 battery but not so easily with the smaller battery for the K-r.
I have looked at shapeways before but never thought to look for the Pentax bits.
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I also wouldn't mind buying a few of these (seriously), I have three batteries for my K3. If you make some for sale, please let me know.
I would be quite happy to make a batch for people on here but I'm not sure whether that would contravene the terms and conditions of the site. Perhaps John Riley would give me some guidance?
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Printed in Eindhoven so they didn't take too long to get here, and no problems with the taxman. They also sent me a couple of e-mails to keep me up to date on the printing process. I just chose the cheapest option and they are great.
I also wouldn't mind buying a few of these (seriously), I have three batteries for my K3. If you make some for sale, please let me know.
I would be quite happy to make a batch for people on here but I'm not sure whether that would contravene the terms and conditions of the site. Perhaps John Riley would give me some guidance?
I don't see why you can't put some in the classified adverts section, they are for use as a Pentax accessory after all. I have 5 batteries for my K-5IIs but would certainly consider buying 3 (bit pointless buying another 2 for the batteries already in the body and grip).
I had to buy some for my Canon batteries too but they were freely available.
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I think Gwyn is right that you would need to be mindful of copyright/patent violations as people do get pretty stroppy about their designs being used without agreement.
Best regards, John
Just because it performs the same function, doesn't make it the same.
And my design is not copied. It is my design, it is different and in my mind better. I hadn't even seen the one on Shapeways until Gwyn pointed me in that direction earlier on today.
Perhaps Mr Pentax shouldn't have designed a different camera since Mr Kodak had gone to the trouble a long time ago of designing them and making them available to the rest of us?
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Best regards, John
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So I thought I would make one, or even two, partly inspired by Gwyn's mention of one in this thread.
I would be interested to see the ones Gwyn mentions as I have not seen the ones she refers to.
But here are the results of mine...
For the D-Li90 (K-5 and I think K-7, K-3 etc)
And for the D-Li109 (my K-r and I think K-x, K-30 and possibly k-50)
The cover for the Canon battery could be fitted either way and showed a window in black or white so you could 'mark' whether the battery was full or dead which I thought was quite a nice feature.
But because of the asymmetrical arrangement of the possible clip features on the Pentax batteries I had to think of another way to achieve the same thing. So there is a little slider on the front that can show full, half or empty battery.
Thoughts and comments would be welcome.
Andy
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