Pet vacuum brush

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Ok, first things first. If you're not interested in reading on please note the brushes are designed to be printed in flex filament. Each strand is 1.2mm in diameter so PLA/ABS/PET may be too stiff and could hurt your pet!! also flex filament is slightly rubbery which helps grip and remove loose hairs. Most modern Vacuums are very powerful, I'd highly recommend using the vacuum on a low setting if you have the option or at the very least opening the bleed air valve to reduce suction (usually a little collar or slider near the handle) most (if not all) vacuums have these. This is NOT designed to physically suck the hair off your pet! It fits a 34-35mm wand (as found on shark vacuums), but can easily be molded using a hair dryer to fit slightly larger or small diameters. alternatively a remix by sticking on a different size tube should be fairly easy. For those of you who have decided to read on, here's the basic idea behind it, how to print and put it together. The attachment isn't designed to suck the hairs off your pet. The brushes do most of the work in removing and trapping the loose hair, just like a normal brush. The vacuum bit is there to capture/prevent the cloud of hairs that normally go flying everywhere whilst grooming. It also offers an easy and convenient disposal method when removing hair from the brush. settings for the brush I printed, none are particularly critical so change as you require. Main attachment: Material: PLA Layer height: 0.3 infill: 10% support: yes Print time: 4:30 Brushes: I did find the base of my brushes was a little too long and a little too wide but I'm not sure if this was just my printer. the base of the brush was roughly 1mm too long and 0.5 mm too wide to fit in the cut outs. I just used some scissors to cut it down but you could easily amend this when slicing. Material: generic flex filament Layer height: 0.2mm infill 100% support: no print time: 1 hour. Putting it together is easy. Initially mine didn't fit on the hoover wand so I gently heated the fitting tube on the attachment with a hair dryer until it was "moldable" then pushed it on the hoover and let it cool down. it now fits perfect. Cut away the sacrificial wall (the squared off one) and glue the brush's into the attachment and you're done!