Heartgrenade (Green Day)

As a present I recreated the heartgrenade from the album cover of a famous album by GD.

In the middle of the heartgrenade you can put something small, like money in my case. It's hold together by two neodym magnets.

If you wanna print it, print one half regularly and the other side flipped, so that both halves fit together.

I used four 25x8x2mm magnets. Before glueing them though, make sure that you got the polarities correct.

I used some cheap acrylic paint for the surface but i noticed that it's already lifting off. You might want to use a correct finish or something like clear vanish afterwards.

As you can see in the pictures, i also tried painting the magnets... Didn't really work obviously...

As a warning: I started 3d printing 3-4 weeks ago and this is the second thing i created. I'm not using a hot end fan, which kinda ruined the bridges in the cut outs... you can do that better probably.

Also, this was my first time trying to paint a 3d print.

All in all, many things went wrong, but it could have gone a lot worse. As a result it still turned out to be quite nice and I hope you gonna enjoy it too.

By the way: This also has a second use as i found out: It's a great fridge magnet!

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

RepRap

Printer:

Geeetech prusa i3 b

Rafts:

Yes

Supports:

No

Resolution:

0.1 layer height

Infill:

40%

Notes:

These are probably not the perfect settings, especially the infill might be decreased. I personally used brims, but actually only because I have problems with bed adhesion, you probably don't need that.