Right Angle Bracket For Enclosures and Boxes by NightRunner417

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

Let's face it... Glue is awesome. I love adhesives like any red blooded man does. HOWEVER, there are times when adhesives just aren't enough. Shocked? Don't be. No one really knows when the first screw fastener was invented, but they appear in history as far back as the 1500's. I personally feel that back in caveman times, some aspiring cave person looked at his newly invented wheel, sighed, and grunted, "If only Naruk had screw!" Now, I know what you're thinking, but please, get your mind out of the gutter. Not that kind of screw. I mean fasteners. SImple fact of life - nothing beats a well mounted bolt or screw for sturdiness in a typical application. I noticed this right away when after I built my Lexan enclosure for my Robo 3D R1 Plus, the box adhesive started to pull apart after only a day or two of use.
Enter this right angle bracket. This was made to join two flat planes of whatever together into a rigid right angle structure. It works beautifully for joining sheet plastic together, and is meant for #6 machine screws. In practice, I used #6-32 1/2" screws, but found that the tips bumped on the inside of the angle, so either a shorter screw is needed or you can place the heads inside the angle with the bolts on the outside of it. Perhaps I'll modify this to work better with those 1/2" screws, but I simply cut the holes in the Lexan a bit small so that the machine bolts tapped into them, and it worked out well enough.