I've always like Flymo lawnmowers and this is our current one. The weak spot though is the onboard cable clip which is supposed to hold the cable that runs between the grip switches and the motor.
Usually after mowing I notice the cable has come out of its clip yet again, or the clip is even missing and I have to hunt for it on the lawn.
Had enough of that! I suppose I could have just taped the cable to the side arm, but when you have a 3D printer, everything is a design challenge, hehehehe, so here's my replacement clip.
I made it pretty tight, on the basis that PLA+ is fairly likely to stretch. And I shaped the cable grip better instead of the square slot in the standard one. I thought I'd made it too tight because there was a loud crack when I clicked it into place on the bar, but on examination it was fine and the noise was just the clip violently seating itself :o) It certainly stayed on during mowing, and the cable didn't escape, so that's a WIN!
No special settings, I used 0.2mm layers, 0.4mm nozzle, standard slicer settings for walls and tops/bottoms/infill. It was only a first prototype, but I'd got everything right first time so didn't need to tweak anything. If you print with ordinary PLA rather than PLA+ (I've always bought PLA+ for the extra strength) then it might crack, in which case maybe scale it up a few % or buy some PLA+ or use another material, it's only pence to print so give it a go.
When fitting, make sure you have some slack in the cable towards the motor rather than making it slack towards the hand grip, or it will get strained when you fold/unfold the handle.
Hope this comes in handy for someone else.
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