texas popper revisited by megic

Last crawled date: 4 years ago

first of all thanks to icathcart for this nice lure.
i wanted to improve it a bit (from my point of view) and i fixed a few things on the model as well.
a few people reported slicer problems which were due to little gaps in the model and some areas with too thin walls. fixed all of that, so that you now can print the whole thing with the "mouth" down without any slicer problems or the need for supports.
additionally i introduced a channel from mouth to back and from top to bottom. i deeply mistrust those little screws in baits. especially as i like to use pla for those baits, because they will biodegrade at least within a hundred years or so if i loose them ;-) but if pla gets wet, it will be less hard, so screws won't hold. in the channels i can introduce a steel rod from front to back, on which i can mount hook and ring - this will definitely hold.
having already modified the lure, i also introduced a hollow chamber, in which you can input little marbles (2mm or so) to make the thing rattle... just stop your print at 50mm, which is layer 250 if you print in 0.2mm res. input your marbles and start again.
i haven't actually used my version up to now, but i will report, once i did. tell me how it worked for you.