LtDan's Trumpet, slightly fancier ;-)

This is a remix of LtDan's printable trumpet (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:772936), with just a few modifications.
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This is a remix of LtDan's printable trumpet, with just a few modifications.

I've reworked the tops of the valves to give them screw-on caps, which are themselves designed to be printed with a filament switch near the top, so that you could get the look of some material inset into the button/top. This also brings along a minor modification to the valve top plate to shrink the holes slightly.

I also added two snap-on brackets to pull the lead and bell pipes together against the valve assembly so that they won't be at risk of breaking from too much bending.

Other than the files I modified, the rest of LtDan's original files are present in this project. By extension, if you want to, you can just print the replacement valves, valve tops, valve body cap, and support brackets, and use them as drop-in replacements for the original parts.

Sadly, as good as my print looks, it isn't anymore playable than the original, but that's okay, I can't play anyway, I just made this for decorative/ornamental reasons.

Print instructions

You'll need three of the valve tops. Start with a metallic filament, then do a color switch at 10.60 mm for the "cap". If you start with gold, then switch to white, you'll get a sort of "ivory inset into brass" look.

Print one of everything else.

Layer height:
Use 0.2 mm for most parts.
Use 0.1 mm for the valve tops/buttons and for the valve pins retainer piece.

On the valve pins piece, I highly advise using one of your filaments which has really strong layer bonding (if it'll color-coordinate with your print's theme), otherwise the pins may break off inside the valve chamber during assembly/disassembly.

Supports: yes, in places -- some parts have a variant with inbuilt supports, but you may find your slicer will do better with its own autogenerated supports.

Total print time: about 58 hours

Filaments used in my print:

  • CC3D silky gold PLA
  • Sunlu silky gold PLA
  • Atomic metallic silver PETG
  • Atomic bright white PLA

Model origin

The author remixed this model.

Printable Trumpet Version 2
by LtDan (thingiverse.com)

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