Male Snap Buckle (Proto3000 Remix) by Daviot

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

A quick remix for Proto3000's snap buckle, isolated to just the male prongs, since they're inevitably the ones that break.
I tweaked the dimensions in order to create a custom replacement for my dad's "Mad Bomber" ushanka, first in orange ABS to prototype, and then in black ABS for the final part.
If building a buckle half for yourself:
-Don't use PLA. It's brittle, and work-hardening will break the prongs. ABS at 50% infill works great.
-Do use supports.
-Use a decent infill.
-Use Cura or your printing app to stretch/squash/shrink/embiggen the buckle to match your part. (i.e. turn off scale-lock and scale each dimension independently).
-Use medium-grit sandpaper and a knife for fine finishing post-print if it doesn't quite fit.