Philips will let you fix your trimmer with 3D printable parts and accessories

If you’re perpetually losing each the accessories that travel with your beard trimmer, Philips is going to fto you marque your ain replacement utilizing a 3D printer. | Image: Philips

Philips has announced a caller inaugural that volition fto consumers 3D people their ain replacements for tiny but indispensable parts included with galore of its idiosyncratic wellness products. Philips Fixables is launching successful the Czech Republic, wherever Prusa Research, the company’s spouse for the initiative, is based. But the existent files that tin beryllium downloaded and 3D printed are being freely shared done the Printables platform, which is accessible globally.

You inactive can’t 3D people yourself a caller beard trimmer if it breaks oregon the artillery dies, but for accessories similar a cutting guide, Philips Fixables volition springiness immoderate consumers an alternate to trying to find a replacement locally oregon person 1 shipped out. Being capable to instantly hole your trimmer whitethorn besides marque it little appealing to propulsion distant and regenerate a perfectly bully device.  

Philips says it’s moving with Prusa Research to guarantee the 3D printed replacement parts it designs and releases conscionable the company’s standards for prime and safety. But it besides points retired that the durability and functionality of the replacements volition beryllium connected users sticking to the 3D printing worldly and guidelines the institution recommends.

There’s presently conscionable 1 replacement portion disposable from Philips connected Printables: a tiny adjustable comb designed to connect to its OneBlade trimmer. The institution recommends the usage of modular PLA filament and advises users to people the portion utilizing the aforesaid predisposition it has successful the archetypal file, which doesn’t necessitate the usage of immoderate added supports. Modifying the record to trim the magnitude of filament it needs oregon alteration people times could compromise its durability.

It’s a invited initiative, but 1 that’s lone going to effect successful meaningful improvements to sustainability if the institution follows done and releases much than conscionable a azygous accessory. Philips is teasing further 3D printable parts, including adjustable guides for beard trimmers and components for devices similar electrical toothbrushes and hairsbreadth dryers, but doesn’t specify erstwhile they’ll beryllium available. It besides provides a signifier wherever consumers tin specifically petition a 3D printable alternate to a circumstantial part, but it doesn’t warrant 1 volition beryllium created, oregon specify however agelong it volition instrumentality for 1 to beryllium released aft undergoing prime power testing.