Garden Hose Shield

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Description

A customizable garden hose shield designed to guide hoses around a flower bed and prevent flowers from being smushed.

This design is a collaboration with Crazy Llama Customs, check out her awesome work on Instagram!

Printing Tips Printing Technology: FDM Layer Height: 0.2 mm Perimeters: 4 Infill: 10% Infill Pattern: Gyroid Recommended Material: ABS, ASA, PETG Supports: No Support Type: None

Notes:

Recommend ASA for outdoor use
Spike should be printed with flat area on the build plate and increased perimeters

Assembly Instructions Materials Needed: None

Instructions:

Print
Set housing and roller on ground
Hammer spike through housing
Screw on cap

Change Log

May 6, 2026

Updated base chamfer around rim of mushroom cap to reduce overhangs.
Added cavity under mushroom cap to reduce filament usage.
Updated color placement for hopefully better multi-color prints. All changes thanks to suggestion from Thangs user Useful_Trinkets, thank you for your feedback!

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Discussions

Useful_Trinkets2 months ago

Nice model, thank you for sharing it! Looking at the slice preview, it appears there's two bridged regions in the threads of the cap. This is a great place to use a tapered relief instead of flat bottoms - it means no bridging/easier printing and it should use a bit less filament!

Lunar Prototypes2 months ago

That's a great point and definitely worth an update. Good excuse for me to make this more AMS compatible as well.

For the bridging, in my slicer I only see the very large bridging at the top of the threads. I can add some height to that cavity and a chamfer that should reduce material and bridging. Is there another one I'm missing?

Useful_Trinkets1 month ago

The top (also needs thread relief) and the bottom of the threads on the mushroom cap. They start with a shelf at ~5.2mm from bottom of model - dark and light blue lines in the center seen here: https://ibb.co/7drFL6WL

Two other great places for a chamfer on this model:

The rim of the mushroom (it prints good enough but fillets on bottom edges and 3d printing don't mix well imo)
The beginning of the threads on the stem

Lunar Prototypes1 month ago

Okay, updates only managed to shave off about 5g of filament, but 5g is 5g, worth it. Bridging and overhangs are reduced, and I think this is a good candidate for variable layer height (something I haven't found much of an application for until now), which shaves off 2g from normal slicing.

Updates made with credit given, THANK YOU for helping make this a better design!

Lunar Prototypes1 month ago

I see it now, picture helped a lot. Thanks!

I’ll get these updates into the next revision. I tested adding a chamfered cavity above the threads to reduce the big bridged area there. Interestingly, it adds a little material overall because of the extra perimeters, but only about +2g, so I think the cleaner unsupported print is worth it.

I’ll also look at the cap rim and the start of the stem threads like you pointed out. Really appreciate the detailed feedback!