Short side hamper handle from the top:
https://social.fbxl.net/media/c06e0e29294d96565b1b189f3bde757486e4af9d79cb92ab3387419f5a802f4b.jpg
Long side hamper handle from the bottom:
https://social.fbxl.net/media/9890d325f4126ae3d58d94435392bff91c44b5f6b557e39a97bf5e16f891b1c7.jpg
I always enjoy prints that just become part of our lives (and especially ones that let us keep using something that’s going to the landfill otherwise)
The hamper has handles that break. For most people I think that’d be time to replace it. I didn’t want to do that, so I designed a new handle based on the handle on the short end. This ended up being a mistake later, I’ll explain then.
I printed 2 handles (the connection between the two is just to make the printing work better since it can print the two pieces as one piece, then I just snap the two apart and clean up the spot they were connected)
I used my rotary tool to remove the remnants of the original handles. I should have used the cutting tool but I had the diamond grinder so I used that. It worked fine, I was able to fully remove the old material. A quick test fit confirmed that the handle design was pretty good (I just used a tape measure for the measurements so this was a real potential problem)
I went to the long side, but realized that the design of the hamper was different lengthwise than widthwise. I removed a couple tabs that were going to block the new handle, and instead of putting it in as designed, I just put it sideways, which fit.
I put the two in and added gorilla glue. Gorilla glue requires water to foam up, so I wet all the parts. Now everything is fitted, the glue is in, and it’s just drying now. I’d consider this repair a success, and I expect the strong PLA part to give the whole hamper a lot more stiffness at those parts, and there’s significantly more material in these spots that break. If the other two handles break, I’ll just print two more, and at that point I can’t help but think that the hamper will be bulletproof.
Saw a hamper and immediately started looking for the cat in the picture. Couldn’t find it, read the title. Still wondering why no cat.
Love it when printers actually solve a problem!
It’s a bandaid. Truly solving the problem would be to charge and jail the CEOs that permit and probably demand their products to purposely have a short lifespan in the sake of profit. Those scum do not deserve a spot in the society they are actively working to destroy.
I have that same hamper and lost that same handle…
I’ll throw the stl up for you in a few hours.
Also waiting for this, let me know when you get it up
Thanks =)
https://social.fbxl.net/media/2c5e2e1c1784048054b50a05bba93cd3d7a5d7f3d98f22a13624b6ed57702d76.stl
There, I just have the one handle since most people probably won’t need multiple.
I have the same laundry basket, and the handles are broken:
That’s hilarious, same hamper and the same broken handle!
Based on the Reuleaux Triangle pattern (there’s your twenty dollar word of the day) I think I have the same hamper…
3dprinting is the only remaining technical realm that still makes me feel good.
Cant view the pics as they are FB hosted
I don’t own Facebook, so I doubt that.
I think the power was just out when you tried them.
Ahh, they looked like the usual FB obfusticated urls, thought they were not loading as sometimes it blocks them being loaded out of context.
Cheers, working now.