What 3D printing project are you working on today?

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We have baby chicks and the mason-jar feeder just isn't cutting it... especially because you have to fill it up and then quickly invert it, and you lose a ton of volume doing so

So I took a much larger container that I can fill from the top. :)

Here's what I came up with.
  1. I down - resized the chicken feeder for Ø100 PVC pipe V2 to make it match my plastic container size: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6681158
  2. I customized this Bulkhead fitting to make it a good fit for the top of my container to top-fill
    https://makerworld.com/en/models/1585196
  3. I customized this Parametric Funnel Maker (100% Customizable) to fit into the bulkead to make filling easier
    https://makerworld.com/en/models/1333676
A few tweaks to them in Tinkercad and here's what I ended up with (funnel not shown):

3D printed chick crumbles feeder.jpg
 
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