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Thursday, 21 November 2019

More 3D Printing Usefulness

A colleague has a clothes dryer that came with two feet used to attach it over bath. The feet sit over the side of the bath and the other side of the A frame design sits next to the wall. This is fine if you have only one side to load up with clothes, but if you want to spin it round 180 degrees and load the other side then there's no feet on the side that is now on the edge of the bath. The dryer has the holes for the other two feet, they just weren't supplied.

A foot:


There's a screw that fixes the foot to the frame, there's four holes for feet, only two feet. The screw is countersunk so it doesn't damage the surface the foot rest on.


An OpenSCAD model later and we have prototype one:


This was fine, except that I'd left out the countersinking of the screw and the screw hole was too big.
Prototype two has the countersinking.


I printed two of the latest version and so far it looks like they do the job.