Parametric Nightingale Magazine V1.0 (Supportless Horizontal Print)
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A parametric nightingale magazine. Most notably allows for any capacity your heart desires (and print bed allows)
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- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Outdoor Sports
- License
- Creative Commons — Public Domain
A simple, Open-Source, nightingale geometry magazine. What can I even say, it's what's on the tin.
Much like the ParaTalon, this was made as I wasn't satisfied with any printable magazine design I found. I wanted something simple, robust, straight-forward and hardware-free but hardware compatible.
Printing:
Print front-to-plate, the internal finish of the front wall is the most important for reliability.
Use PETG. Due to the thin walled nature of nightingale magazines PLA will just explode on a light impact.
Good bridging is important, it'll increase reliability. If you have an orca nightly I recommend increasing bridge density.
Do everything you can to prevent warping. I use Mouse Ears and print the first 10 layers without cooling. Magazines are easily the most prone to warping thing you can print.
Version history
Alpha | Initial release |
V1 | Fixed feedlip geometry. Improved feedlip printing. Improved reliability. Included additional bottom plates. |
Notes:
Capacities are based on printed springs which are very bulky, if you use actual springs then you'll get extra rounds.
I can't actually fine-tune the springs according to the capacity because FreeCAD does not allow converting Distances into Floats. They're rated by coils rather than actual intended capacity
Originally this project was supposed to be called the Uni-Gale (Short for Universal Nightingale) and was meant to include several optional catch notches, I did not do this because I have only 1 blaster that can take alt catch notch nightingales. If you have any suggestions for alternate catch notches (and can provide measurements) I'll be happy to try.
To use the parametry, download the source and just go to VarSet. There you can change Capacity to whatever. You can figure out the rest of the parameters, I believe in you.
Made in FreeCAD 1.1.0rc3