Pond Skimmer Project

4/27/16 - Updated left gate to be stronger was having issues with raccoons pulling out the gate to easily and breaking the pivot tab.

10/25/15 - Changed two STL files from inches to mm top right small and top left small.

This is my attempt at designing and printing out a submerged pond water surface skimmer. This is experimental, complicated construction, and there are better way to do this I am sure. I just wanted to see if my idea would work. I am sharing my design as a concept. I have a peanut pond with a ledge that I wanted to make a submerged water skimmer to pull leaves or what ever from the surface. The surface tiles are kind of an after thought. I wanted to print it out on my 3D printer (200x200x185), but it was going to be to large. I broke out the design into smaller parts and made it modular. My choice for filament was Black ABS for the box and Grey ABS for the surface tiles. I glued it together with ABS plumbers glue. I originally designed it to have two gates or