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Regulation Caddy Drawers!
🕑 Added 2020-09-30 15:24:30 +0000 UTCDrawers, drawers, drawers! But first, names!
Welcome back to caddy land, wonderful people. So, a few days back I posted up the first round of Regulation Caddy designs, which included two sizes: 1x1 and 1x2. Now, this was not the best naming, because the latter was not twice the size of the former, it was 1.5 times the size. So, I've added an actual 1x2 version:
It's there with the pastel blue inner, and it's called 1x2. But, but, you're thinking, but... that's what the other one was called! That's right, I've renamed that one to 1x1.5. So, now we have: 1x1, 1x2 and 1x1.5. Apologies for any confusion! 😁
Let's move on to the drawers!
Actually, it's a tray and a drawer! This 2x2 (this is why the other things needed clarification) caddy has a tray on top that lifts out, and a drawer underneath. The caddy body has the usual connector bits on the corners, and so can be joined to more of these units, or to the open top caddies.
Wall Mounting
I had a request for a wall mount for these things, which seemed like a great idea since the connector pieces already use prongs that fit into the caddies from below. However, the existing print orientation meant that those prongs would not hold up to much bending before they'd break. That's not an issue under normal circumstances, but when mounted on a wall there's a high likelihood of the thing getting bashed around.
So, the wall mount here has been reworked to print with the prongs on the bed plane, making it vastly stronger, and allowing the prongs to be lengthened, too.
Printing Tips
Nothing tricky here! The body, drawer and tray all print upright, as shown below. The wall mount prints with the prongs against the bed.
File Locations
You'll find all these on dropbox, under:
798 Regulation Caddy System/Tray and Drawer (2x2) for the drawer and tray parts
798 Regulation Caddy System/Wall Mount for the wall mount element
798 Regulation Caddy System/Open Top Caddy for the standard forms
(dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592 )
Final Thoughts
As hoped, this is all coming out very obviously 3D printed, but it clearly needs more complexity! :D Next caddy currently coming up will add some of that... I'll give a bit of a sneak peek in the upcoming end of month post :)
Until then, happy printing! :)
xoxo
Sven.
Comments
Clockspring3D
They could, but it would be much like using only the bottom half of the screw joiner - it would stay together while sitting on a table, but not if you lifted any of the components up :)
Can the prongs also be used as a joiner instead of the screw joiner?
