nikdfish
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Finally got all the parts together to use some worklight mounts I made a while back for the 1025R & 3038e on the 3d printer.
They were done in a semi flexible version of TPU, a material that lets you produce parts whose feel is very similar to tire rubber.
These are the mounts done for the 1025R. They mimic the shape of the attachment point of the Hella worklights.
Here after attachment to the tractor and used to mount a multi-led worklight. The Hella's just did not put out as much illumination as the cheap LED worklights I had used earlier on the 3038e which is why I wanted to replace them.
I soldered an H11 male connector to the worklight feed so it could connect to the tractor wiring without modification.
This is a mount for the 3038e being printed. It is in two parts to sandwich the fender mounted grab handle.
The side worklights had previously been mounted on metal straps clamped around the grab handles in the past, along with mirrors. Out a little too far & on a somewhat flimsy mount, they ended up getting damaged from too close acquaintance with some tree limbs while bush hogging.
This is the finished mount for the 3038e installed on the grab handle. Threaded inserts were heated & embedded on one side of the mount. Cap head screws pass through the other side to make the attachment.
The old LED worklight attached to the printed mount using replacement connection hardware for those components that had been damaged.
The replacement mirrors were done via magnet mounts, as shown in another post about new mirrors for the 1025R (& 3038e)
They were done in a semi flexible version of TPU, a material that lets you produce parts whose feel is very similar to tire rubber.
These are the mounts done for the 1025R. They mimic the shape of the attachment point of the Hella worklights.
Here after attachment to the tractor and used to mount a multi-led worklight. The Hella's just did not put out as much illumination as the cheap LED worklights I had used earlier on the 3038e which is why I wanted to replace them.
I soldered an H11 male connector to the worklight feed so it could connect to the tractor wiring without modification.
This is a mount for the 3038e being printed. It is in two parts to sandwich the fender mounted grab handle.
The side worklights had previously been mounted on metal straps clamped around the grab handles in the past, along with mirrors. Out a little too far & on a somewhat flimsy mount, they ended up getting damaged from too close acquaintance with some tree limbs while bush hogging.
This is the finished mount for the 3038e installed on the grab handle. Threaded inserts were heated & embedded on one side of the mount. Cap head screws pass through the other side to make the attachment.
The old LED worklight attached to the printed mount using replacement connection hardware for those components that had been damaged.
The replacement mirrors were done via magnet mounts, as shown in another post about new mirrors for the 1025R (& 3038e)
