Sony FDR-AX33 Bottom Plate Replacement (3D Print)
This is a 3D printable replacement bottom plate for the Sony® FDR-AX33. Especially intended for those who are having the same issues as we are having with almost all of our Sony® camera’s: The tripod mount screw breaking out of the base/bottom plate.
For more information and why I decided to make a replacement part myself, please read bellow 🙂
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This download contains a .obj file! NOT an .stl (which I usually use), but most (if not all) slicers will be perfectly able to slice it 🙂
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I had contacted and asked Sony® several times and through different channels and all I wanted was that they would give me an option to buy an (original) replacement bottom for the camera. And often the only reply I got was (a default template) saying: “You can sent it in, but it is out of warranty now, so you will have to pay all costs yourself” (or something along those lines).
Some of the estimates they gave me where just absurdly high for a damn piece of poorly engineered ABS to be honest. One of the quotes they gave me would almost be as much as getting a second hand AX33!
Why am I so ‘frustrated’ about this and calling it a poorly engineered piece of ABS? Well because this definitely isn’t the first Sony camera it happend to with me (and the same goes for several several of our friends and co-workers🤷🏽♀️).
There are also more than enough posts online about people complaining about the tripod screw/mount breaking out of their Sony camera bodies.
Don’t get me wrong: I absolutely LOVE our Sony camera’s and their image quality, but their tripod mounts are just garbage to be honest (No, we’re not using cheap tripods either btw).
We never had/have issues like this with our Nikon or other brand camera’s, and because I was fed up with yet another AX33 breaking down on exactly the same spot, I decided to make my own replacement part.
It has been working for years now (as of 2024 about 4 years to be exact) and after I replaced the original with my own, I never had any issues at all anymore. The funny thing is that I even used PLA just do to a first ‘quick fit test’ before I would print it in something like PETG. But that first ‘Test Fit PLA Piece‘? It’s still on there without ANY wear or tear, and it didn’t even warped (despite the fact that the AX33 can sometimes get quite warm during longer filming sessions).
Post Print Clean up Tip:
You will need to clean up the brim and such from your print (obviously), but it MIGHT also be required to sand one of the edges of the bottom a bit to make it fit into your camera. I have repaired three FDR-AX33’s with this model, for the first one it fitted perfectly, the second one needed a (TINY!) bit of sanding on the back of the bottom plate, and the third one a little bit of sanding on the right side of the bottom plate. No idea why this is, but I suspect that it’s just how the body of the FDR-AX33 snaps together (or not)🤷🏽♀️
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This is a DIY 3D Printable Replacement part, and as with all my projects: Use is 100% at your own risk and at your own responsibility! If your camera still has warranty (which I highly doubt though for an FDR-AX33 by now 😉 ), then I would STRONGLY recommend taking it in for repair under warranty instead if 3D printing this part yourself. Opening your camera and/or installing this replacement part will definitely void your warranty if you still have warranty! Do note that I have had no issues at all with my cameras which are using this replacement part, but that is obviously no guarantee for your camera’s and/or 3D print! So yet again: Use at your own risk!
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