Modified in-cage wall mounts

[zane andrews]

Hi All,

I just want to share our in-cage mounting system. These are based on the measurements of our cages. 

Essentially we played around with trying to drill a recess hole to epoxy in the magnets but in the end we found to easier to take 3mm sheets of red perspex and in 1 we machined out the area for the nose poke and in the other we machined out both the nose poke area and the holes for the magnets. We then simply stuck them together with epoxy and also used epoxy to hold the magnets in. Its super strong. I have attached a few photos. We just made sure that the charging outlet and BNC were accessible.

We sent the files and material to an offsite contractor and they machined out the dividers. Much better for consistency and time.

Cheers

Zane

[zane andrews]

[Lex Kravitz]

Thanks for posting these Zane!  They look great!  Were these designed with a 3D or laser cutting file you could share?  Please keep me in the loop on how these work in the cages.  Thanks!  -Lex

[Antonio Benci]

JHi Lex,

The panels were milled by our plastics supplier on a flatbed CNC mill. They have the capacity to mill several in one operation.

Cheers, Antonio Benci

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[Lex Kravitz]

Just to add to this post, I recently did this for our caging (AllenTown NexGen caging), I think it's a fantastic idea!  I did this with 3D printing and also ordered some laser-cut acrylic and Delrin from https://www.ponoko.com/.

I wrote up a post including editable files and photos here.  Thanks for the idea!

On Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 5:06:38 PM UTC-5, nino.benci wrote:

JHi Lex,

The panels were milled by our plastics supplier on a flatbed CNC mill. They have the capacity to mill several in one operation.

Cheers, Antonio Benci

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 00:47, Lex Kravitz <> wrote:

Thanks for posting these Zane!  They look great!  Were these designed with a 3D or laser cutting file you could share?  Please keep me in the loop on how these work in the cages.  Thanks!  -Lex

On Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 7:15:39 PM UTC-5, zane andrews wrote:

On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 9:44:00 AM UTC+10, zane andrews wrote:

Hi All,

I just want to share our in-cage mounting system. These are based on the measurements of our cages. 

Essentially we played around with trying to drill a recess hole to epoxy in the magnets but in the end we found to easier to take 3mm sheets of red perspex and in 1 we machined out the area for the nose poke and in the other we machined out both the nose poke area and the holes for the magnets. We then simply stuck them together with epoxy and also used epoxy to hold the magnets in. Its super strong. I have attached a few photos. We just made sure that the charging outlet and BNC were accessible.

We sent the files and material to an offsite contractor and they machined out the dividers. Much better for consistency and time.

Cheers

Zane

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[Lex Kravitz]

One more update on the latest version I made (ordering laser cut parts delivered to your house is one way to stay productive locked out of the lab...).  These parts are from Ponoko.com with 0.5mm thick "Silver on Black Adhesive-Backed Plastic" ($8.77 each) for the front and 3.0mm thick "Black Matte Acrylic" ($5.24 each) for the back.  Downloadable/Editable files here.

The adhesive backed "front" can be aligned and stuck directly to the back and 8mm x 3mm round magnets can then be glued into the holes in the back part to mate with identical magnets on the FED3.

Here's a couple photos in a cage (note that plants are not normally in our mouse facility... I'm doing this testing at home due to the pandemic).

  

[Yuhui Luo]

Hi all, 

Just want to share my design files (see attached) of the cage inserts (see images below), in case it could benefit someone also using the Innovive caging system as we do. I made this design by editing the files above from Lex. The editable file is here. 

Also some tips for people who want to make their designs: make sure the gap between the cage insert and the cage border is within 1 cm! The mice can actually squeeze themselves (to a surprising extent) and climb over the wall if there is a 1 cm gap. I learned a hard lesson from my initial design :)

Best,

Sunny

    

 

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[Hamid Taghipour]

Hi!

I am just re-posting the images of our FED cages in case someone is interested. You just need to cut the side of the cage and use screws and nuts (or magnets) to securely lock the FED3 on the cage, no further 3D printing or careful measurements of the designs are necessary.

Best. 

Hamid Taghipourbibalan

Ph.D. Fellow in Behavioral Neuroscience, Mccutcheonlab, UiT, Tromsø, Norway

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