Seestar S30 Fall-Away Dewshield and Masks-Stop worrying about shutting down with the dewshield installed!

When I bought my Seestar S50, I had to buy this equipment ($70 online!). Now that I have a 3D printer, and a Seestar S30, I decided to make my own. This kit provides the fall away mount, and dewshield, to be used together. There are also 3 diffraction masks that fit on the end of the dewshield. Two of the masks are for picture enhancement. The third is a bahtinov mask that I made using McKraken’s Taylored Bahtinov mask. I included it so that you would not have to make one for this setup. The Bahtinov mask should be printed with a 0.2mm hotend.

Seestar S30 not included!

Notes: 

• If printing the bahtinov mask, you should use a 2mm hotend. Everything else can be printed using a 4mm hotend. 
• I used BambuLab Black Matte PLA for this project, and printed on a smooth plate so that I did not get reflections from the scope side of the plate. I used a self-adhesive black felt to line the inside of the dewshield to minimize glare.
• You will need to work and deburr the double hinge to get it to move smoothly. It needs to be able to fall away from the S30 on its own. (See above)
• Since the S30 has magnets in the front of the lens, I have included cavities to allow you to install 8x1mm round magnets.  If you use the .3MF file you will see a pause before layer 9 (4mm hotend) so that you can insert these magnets. Make sure that you have oriented them to the way they should stick to the S30 and that this side is facing up when you insert them into the print. (See below)

Inserting magnets                                                                     .3mf project plate

Finally, this project took quite a bit of my time. If you like and use this, please consider buying me a coffee!