Flip-down Sliding-Door Stop by ottaross

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

A friend mentioned their cats were pretty good at opening their interior sliding door. They described how a flip-down retainer could probably keep it in position. What I came up with was a slim assembly that can stay out of the way until you want to use it, with a fingercatch and some bumps and detents to retain it in a stowed position when not in use.
It's quite rugged, even made with PLA - although I wouldn't suggest it as a security apparatus. I realized it could also be used as a flip-down coat hook, so have made a couple of small adjustments which I'll load into Thingiverse as a remix of this version.
The 'small' version of this device only needs 10mm of clearance from the wall. The 'large' version is 40% bigger, so would need 14mm.
A #6 screw will work well in the small version, whereas a #8 (or maybe even a #10) would work with the larger one.