Food Rising plant nutrient and assembly guides posted: new 3D-printable parts just posted, too

Monday, March 09, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: Food Rising, 3D parts, user guides

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(NaturalNews) We've got a flurry of new items to share with you on the Food Rising Mini-Farm Grow Boxes. Shipments and donations are going out right now, but there was a slightly delay on all the plant foods other than lettuce, so those shipments will go out as soon as we receive the bulk plant foods (scheduled to be received tomorrow or Wed.).

First, we've posted two new guides:

Super Simple Plant Nutrient Instructions teach you how to mix plant nutrients with water to achieve the proper nutrient density for your plants. You'll discover an easy pH guide, instructions for altering pH if needed, and simple guidelines for nutrient ratios.

Mini-Farm Grow Box Assembly Instructions show you how to assemble your new grow box. These instructions are also very useful if you're building your own system from scratch.

Don't miss the DIY videos at the Food Rising video page.

New 3D-printable parts posted!

We've just posted a Float Valve Retention Nut with an expanded inner thread diameter.

This was needed because 3D printers are far from exact, and some printers were printing the Retention Nuts a little too narrow on the threads, causing threading problems when people tried to attach them to the receivers. This new Retention Nut has the negative thread space expanded by an additional 0.4mm in diameter, making it a "looser fit" nut that attaches more easily.

This design also features a slightly expanded negative space cylinder covering the bottom-most threads, allowing the nut to be more easily "started" when threading onto the Receiver.

The recommended filament for printing this part is T-glase filament which you can find at SupplySource.com (in both 1.75 and 2.85mm diameters).

We've also posted an easy-to-print pair of Float Valve Receivers.

This is a really cool solution to the problem of the receiver foot tending to curl up and off the print bed surface. Because the receiver foot could not itself be enlarged (it has to fit between the two "feet" of the Float Valve Adapter), I created a mirror image of the receiver with a tear-away filament segment between the two objects. Printing two of them connected in this way allows them to more easily adhere to the print bed, while simultaneously allowing you to easily separate them after printing.

Technically, the two objects are not quite a mirror image, by the way. Otherwise, the threads would be backwards on one of them. (I realized this with an OOPS moment...)

Got suggestions for our 3D printed objects?

I'll be adding more variations and 3D-printable objects to the library at FoodRising.org. If you have suggestions of things you think we should engineer and post, simply email [email protected]

Thank you for your feedback, and know that we are working hard to keep posting more improvements, user guides, 3D objects and more. Thank you for your patience as we work 'round the clock to share all these amazing innovations with the world!

Pre-built Food Rising Mini-Farm Grow Boxes are now available at www.SupplySource.com