Garden & outdoor

Compost aerator tool head

A compost heap breaks down faster when air gets into the middle, and this aerator head turns a broom handle into a plunging turner. The head is a 60 mm diameter hub with a 25 mm socket for a wooden handle, secured by two screw holes, and four 60 mm wings that fold flat on the down-stroke and spread on the pull, each hinged on a 4 mm pin with a stop tab. Print the hub upright in PETG or ASA with 5 walls, and the wings on their sides at 100 percent infill. Open the ready-made model free, resize it on your phone or computer, then download a print-ready STL, 3MF or G-code sliced for your printer, free.
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Open

Create a free account (no card) and open this ready-made model in SpeakCAD. It renders in your browser, on your phone or computer. It is not a fixed STL: every dimension stays editable.
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Adjust

Change its numbers in the viewer for free, or ask the AI in the chat: wall thickness, hole size, the thing it clips onto. AI changes use 2 credits per request (1 for a quick edit, 3 for a redesign), paid with a plan from Maker at $7.99 a month.
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Print

Download a watertight STL or 3MF free, with your numbers and hand edits, or G-code sliced for your printer at the same price. After an AI change the download is included in every plan (4 credits without one).

Dimensions of the ready-made model (editable)

ParameterValue
hub diameter60 mm
hub height70 mm
handle socket diameter25.5 mm
socket depth from top50 mm
screw hole diameter5 mm
height of screw holes (mid socket)45 mm
wing length (outward)60 mm
wing width25 mm
wing thickness5 mm
radial clearance added to hole0.4 mm
world Z of hinge axis (below socket bottom = 20)13 mm
clearance between ledge and wing bottom0.3 mm
Measured values from the ready-made model; change any of them after opening it, or in the preview above.

Example prompt

Design a compost aerator head: a 60 mm diameter hub 70 mm tall with a 25.5 mm socket 50 mm deep and two 5 mm screw holes, and four hinged wings 60 x 25 x 5 mm on 4 mm pins that fold up 90 degrees and stop near horizontal.

This prompt comes with the ready-made model when you sign in, in case you want the AI to redesign it (3 credits a redesign); changing numbers in the viewer is free.

Fit notes

SpeakCAD builds the socket to your handle diameter and scales the wings for a small tumbler or a large bay. If you prefer a fixed corkscrew head, describe it and the model regenerates in the chat. Open the ready-made model free, change its numbers in the viewer and download the STL or 3MF free; AI changes use credits.

Also searched as: compost aerator 3d print, compost turner tool head stl, printable compost mixing tool, broom handle compost aerator.

Questions people ask about a compost aerator tool head

A compost heap breaks down faster when air gets into the middle, and this aerator head turns a broom handle into a plunging turner. The head is a 60 mm diameter hub with a 25 mm socket for a wooden handle, secured by two screw holes, and four 60 mm wings that fold flat on the down-stroke and spread on the pull, each hinged on a 4 mm pin with a stop tab. Print the hub upright in PETG or ASA with 5 walls, and the wings on their sides at 100 percent infill.

Click Open it free on this page and create a free account (no card): the ready-made model opens in your browser, on your phone or computer, nothing to install. Change its numbers in the viewer for free and download a watertight STL or 3MF free, or G-code sliced for your printer at the same price. An AI change in the chat uses 2 credits per request (3 for a redesign), and the download after it is included in every plan (4 credits without one). Start with Maker: 50 credits a month for $7.99, cancel anytime.

On this page: open the ready-made model free in a SpeakCAD account (no card), change any dimension in the viewer, then download the STL or 3MF free, or G-code sliced for your printer at the same price.

A shared STL is modelled for someone else's measurements. Here you open the ready-made model free, change it to your measurements in the viewer, then download a file sized for the part you actually own, free as STL or 3MF.

Yes. SpeakCAD slices the part on its servers with OrcaSlicer and your printer's official profile (380+ printers, including Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality and Elegoo), and you download the G-code (a sliced .gcode.3mf for Bambu Lab printers). G-code sliced for your printer costs the same as the STL: included in every plan, free for a part you shaped by hand, 4 credits without a plan for a part with AI work in it. Pick your printer on the printers page to see its profile.

No. SpeakCAD runs in the browser on your phone or computer: the chat, the 3D engine and the live viewer load in the tab. The only file you download is the finished STL, 3MF or sliced G-code.

Open, resize and print your compost aerator tool head

Nothing to install. Open the ready-made model in a free account, change its numbers in the viewer or shape it with the hand tools (a hole, a cut, rounded corners), then download the STL or 3MF free, or sliced G-code with credits.

Looking for a finished design by a maker? Check the marketplace, where makers sell rated models for credits.