Modular Sewing Spool Holder by xyzaxis

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Intro
This is a modular sewing spool holder system that uses tileable snap-together bases and snap-in pegs.
The snap-in peg design provides some neat advantages:
Stronger pegs (the printed peg can be oriented along the X-Y axis)
Choice of peg length
Ability to replace broken pegs
The bases also snap together and can be tiled - the 4x4 and 5x5 grids have the same outside dimensions, so you can mix and match in a grid (see pics). I am working on additional bases for larger spools but they are not yet perfected.
Printing this Thing - TL;DR
Optionally print a small peg and base for calibration, choose and print the appropriate base for your sewing spool size, then choose your peg length and print the corresponding number of pegs.
Printing this Thing - Details
Calibration (Optional)
Print the shorter peg and the snap-in calibration base to make sure your printer is dialed in. The peg should snap into the base with a solid click, and be difficult (but not impossible) to remove.
Choose and print the right base
The 5x5 grid supports spools up to 19mm in diameter and requires 25 pegs.
The 4x4 grid supports spools from 19 to 27mm in diameter and requires 16 pegs.
Choose the right peg length and print the right number of pegs

The 66.5mm pegs should be just long enough to hold a standard height spool and its bobbin. However, if you put this in a drawer, you'll find that every time you close the drawer with any force, your bobbins go flying off the top of the pegs.

The 81.5mm pegs are designed with some extra length to hold bobbins in place when inside a sliding drawer.
Misc notes
The pegs are wider at the base to better fit a spool, and taper slightly towards the top until the last few cm, where the diameter is small enough to hold a bobbin.
The tallest peg height was selected to just fit inside smaller IKEA LINNMON drawers (this is the type of drawer shown in the pictures).
DesignSpark mechanical source files are included if you want to make shorter pegs. Don't try to scale the pegs with your slicer as it will mess up the proportions of the snap-in part of the peg.
(Shameless plug alert) A great accessory for this Thing is the Improved Sewing Bobbin Clip - clipped bobbins fit on top of the spools. You can see some of these in the pics.