Mercedes Jack Adapter - Customisable

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<p>Three different types of jacking point adapters for a Mercedes W221 S-Class (and probably other Mercedes models as well), together with the OpenSCAD program that produced them, allowing the dimensions of the adapters to be customised.</p><p><br>The basis of the program is a block that is modelled on a Mercedes factory jack, designed to locate in the vehicle's jacking point. &nbsp;This block is then mounted on one of three different adapters:<br>1) A simple disc designed to sit inside the cup of a generic trolley jack (with or without a locating peg),<br>2) A saddle plate designed to sit on top of an axle stand,<br>3) A shaped adapter designed to fit another type of trolley jack cup.</p><p>The required adapter can be selected by setting ONE of the Program Options 'disc', 'saddle' or 'jack' to 'true'.</p><p>[Disc]<br>The disc can be configured with the 'disc_thickness' and 'disc diam' parameters. &nbsp;The 'fillet_rad' parameter can also be used to specify the radius of the filleted edges of the disc. &nbsp;An optional locating peg can be added underneath the disc if the 'peg' option is set to 'true', and its dimensions can be configured with the 'peg_length' and 'peg_diam' parameters.</p><p>[Saddle Plate]<br>The saddle plate that sits on an axle stand is configurable using the following parameters:<br>'stand_top_width': the width of the flat plate on the top of the axle stand (mine is 61mm).<br>'stand_top_length': the length of the flat plate (between the sloping 'ears') (mine is 64mm).<br>fillet_rad: the radius of the filleted edges of the saddle plate.<br>saddle_thickness: the thickness of the saddle plate and the base feet.</p><p>[Jack Adapter]<br>The diameter of the adapter and the fillet radius are defined by the 'disc_diam' and 'fillet_rad' parameters respectively.</p><p>If printing this on a filament (FDM) 3D printer, I recommend 100% infill,&nbsp;<br>with build plate support where necessary (the saddle plate and jack adapters, and the disc adapter if the locating peg is included). &nbsp;I used ABS.</p><p>This program requires the excellent 'Round Anything' library by Kurt Hutten (https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything)</p><p>CJH, November 2022.</p>