Secret Spray Stash

Hi hi, wonderful people!

I've mentioned many times how much I love finding the little things that give something its identity, and make it immediately recognisable as itself. And this time that has been applied to aerosol cans! It turns out there are standards for the shape of these things, so it wasn't exactly a huge shock when getting the angles and dimensions right made the can look quite convincing. What was more amusing, though was what a difference it made to add a really cliched graphic to the thing! I imagine I've spent my entire life seeing these sorts of things, and there are certain design conventions that just can't be denied, and which prodded my brain and said "spray can!"

Oh, yes, I should mention that this is a container! The top part is a screw-on lid, so you can store all manner of valuable cylindrical things in plain sight when you keep this hidden amongst other, real spray cans. The nozzle also just threads on to the top.

Much as I was motivated to put together a graphic for the spray can, I also played around with good old filament changes for stripes, too, which worked quite effectively, and obviously doesn't carry the huge overhead of time and material waste that multimaterial systems generally do.

Print Description

This is a multipart assembly but the tolerances are quite generous thanks to the wonders of threaded parts that take up any slack, so there shouldn't be anything tricky.

Files are provided for a multimaterial print, too, but this is strictly intended for machines that can swap between different filaments (e.g. Prusa MMU, Bambu AMS), and is not for assembly after the fact.

Print Dimensions

The main body model occupies 65mm x 65mm on the print bed and is 138mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This one should scale quite easily! The tolerances on the threads should allow for quite a bit of scaling up or down, but it would of course be possible to use slightly different scaling for the parts to adjust the fit.

Print Orientation

All the parts print right-way-up.

File Location

You'll find this one at at 477 Secret Spray Stash

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

You might be wondering whether there's a clip-on-top lid for this, like real spray cans have, and I did indeed model such a thing! However, it really did just immediately look like a printed tube with that on top, and lost all sense of spray-can-ness, and we can't have that!

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.