for portable or fixed use
I had some left over aluminum tubing from other antenna projects and thought it would be useful to build a 10 meter dipole out of it. I needed a way to attach the elements to a block of wood and attach the block of wood to a TV antenna mast. I found a suitable block of hardwood and designed and 3D printed a template for drilling. To support the elements, I designed clamps and printed them on my 3D printer.
My printer was not capable of printing stronger filaments like ABS so I was stuck with PLA. To my surprise, PLA did fine until I bought a better printer and replaced them with ABS printed clamps.
Now that I am able to print using ABS, I thought it would be interesting to design the entire dipole support to be 3D printed.
The first design uses a light-weight U-clamp that I had a bunch of for the vertical support.
Once I replaced the TV antenna mast vertical support with a taller painters pole, I realized that it could be useful to use a threaded coupling to attach to the end of the painters pole. Since someone else had already designed that part, I redesigned my dipole support to use that part.
I have posted the design to Thingiverse You may also need the painters pole bracket designed by VO1PWF that’s on Thingiverse here if you don’t want to use a U-Bolt bracket.
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