BirdBuddy 1" Copper Water Pipe Adapter

I needed to mount my BirdBuddy feeder. The directions said to use a standard bird feeder pole to mount it. I'm not sure what a standard bird feeder pole is, but I did not find one that fit at my local big box store.

I instead decided to go with a 1" copper water pipe and drove it deep into the ground. I made this adapter to fit the pipe tightly, and allow for easy removal of the bird feeder for cleaning, etc.

Printing

NOTE: this part will be in the sun! PLA is NOT recommended! Use a higher temperature filament such as PETG, ASA, ABS, etc.

I printed the adapter using ABS with a few extra perimeters for additional strength. Infill percentage should not matter. I printed using a 0.4mm nozzle on the highest layer settings in draft mode, and the print came out nicely. Suppoerts are not needed.

I printed this using 5 perimeters and 20% gyroid infill, and used about 23 grams of ABS filament.

Installation

There are two bolt holes on this adapter. Both are 6mm diameter. 

Once the adapter is pressed on to the top of the pole, you can use a 6mm, 5mm, or a 3/16" drill bit to drill the hole in the pipe. I drilled using the adapter to hold the drill bit in place on the pipe and that worked fine. I bolted the adapter to the pipe using a 5mm bolt and made sure it was “fairly tight”. It should not go anywhere.

The second 6mm hole is for fastening the feeder to the adapter. Measure 10mm from the bottom of the feeder mount and drill a hole straight through. then you can use whatever fastener you would like. As show in the picture, I used a spring clip so my wife could remove it easily.