Great video and thanks for solving all the problems! I was going to suggest printing individual left and right spirals that could interlock with each other and then you assemble any length you want but I prefer your solution, the little 45 degree joint does the additional job of splitting the flow gradually. One of my rules for 3d printing is to not print what you can buy and last I checked, static mixers are a dollar or 2 each if you buy a pack but I struggle to find the shape I want so maybe this is worth trying, especially if I can resize it easily.
I'm currently building myself an injector for mixing acrylic paint with acetal moisture cure silicone, so I can cast in enclosed moulds. I found an stl on Thingiverse of something similar to yours, but yours is better. I will use yours in my model in Fusion. As you say, modelling helices in Fusion is not straightforward. Thanks for your work.
My Tech Fun I will. I expect that it may not work because of the differential viscosities of the silicone and paint and the 20:1 silicone to paint mix I introduce into the mixer. I will post a link here to the Fusion file when I have revised it.
Thank you. Do you think the Z axis offset will affect the mixing? I’m designing mine at 36 degrees through 10 iterations. Yours seems more efficient. I’m diluting a very high MW polymer with water. I want to do as little damage as possible through the mixer.
We are trying to make injection mold for this part... may be we use your *.stl for developing this.. Anyways our designer was confuse with the look of the helix. Your video helped us alot... Thanks, Keep Doing Good Work...
Hello professor, thank you for sharing!! I m trying to figure out a test circuit for mixing miscible fluid with static mixers for a master thesis project. Is there a possibility you share some details about your circuit? Thanks in advance and keep up the great work!!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. Good luck for many more. Cheers. How do i get an .stl file to try and print. Can you please share the same. Thanks in advance
