Nozzle 1 was quickly scavenged. It was the lion kingdom's 1st 3D print & represented the level of skill of a 1st 3D printing design.
There was once a dream of making a manually positionable version of the nozzle. It could easily be done with nozzle 1's remanes. It would need some spring loaded pins in place of the motors to lock the gears. The gears would have to be axially facing. The manually positionable version was intended to become a desk fan, fume extractor, or go near a pool.
There already is a desk fan which works quite well. The nozzle doesn't cover a big enough area to make a good desk fan. There's not enough room for a fume extractor that big. There's still no day job requiring another blower. A blower compact enough to use near a pool would be real noisy & the nozzle wouldn't be as portable as a bare blower on a gimbal. It's generally too big for any application besides what it was built for. It was sized to match a self supporting air duct.
So the lion kingdom reluctantly decided to scrap it. A new one can be printed at any time.
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