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Beekeeping => Do-It-Yourself Plans and Prints => Topic started by: Zweefer on February 26, 2017, 09:21:32 am

Title: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: Zweefer on February 26, 2017, 09:21:32 am
Plans:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2137424

Video
https://youtu.be/kcNt9JcRnyY

It uses about $2.00 of plastic to build...
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: robo on February 26, 2017, 12:31:00 pm
It uses about $2.00 of plastic to build...

Satisfaction of making something useful with your 3D printer - priceless!
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: Zweefer on February 26, 2017, 01:25:19 pm
Yep.  And I also found these...

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:408146
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: LazyBkpr on February 26, 2017, 04:47:50 pm
It uses about $2.00 of plastic to build...

Satisfaction of making something useful with your 3D printer - priceless!


   LOL! Agreed!
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: neillsayers on February 26, 2017, 05:32:54 pm
Next will be plastic frames. Wonder if it could build plastic foundation from a scan and if it would be financially feasible?
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: Zweefer on February 26, 2017, 06:44:26 pm
Probably, you would need the bigger printer though.  The small ones only do 6" or so. Around $350.  The larger ones are approx 8 times that... too rich for my blood. 
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: Perry on February 26, 2017, 07:56:17 pm
Yep.  And I also found these...

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:408146

Yeah, but if I had those how would I be able to kick over the frame of bees I leaned up against the side of the hive?
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: riverbee on February 26, 2017, 09:24:46 pm
zweef, please do not tell me you are having trouble with SHB? 

let's go into business.......you buy the printer, i buy the plastic............... :D :D :laugh:

plastic frame holder; i have a couple sets of stainless steel ones that look like this:

Stainless Steel Frame Holders (https://glorybee.com/stainless-steel-frame-holders-pair?m=Abstract&gclid=CLP2pLaZr9ICFUi1wAoduukCzA)

i tend to lose things, but anyway i didn't buy them.  i have a brother that is/was a tinner/welder etc...... showed him what i wanted and he made them for me. pretty cool!  i don't have a picture of them and not going out in 25 d F weather to dig them out and take a pic......... :D
i don't like setting frames against the hive sometimes, like perry said, i either kick them/tip them over. 
Title: Re: 3D printed small hive beetle trap
Post by: Zweefer on February 26, 2017, 11:03:51 pm
Riverbee - no shb here... just thought it would be good to pass on.