Spurtle Hanger - Kitchen Utensil Wall Bracket by markabyrd

Last crawled date: 3 years, 3 months ago

Christmas, too much TV, repeated infomercials and then by USPS arrive two 4pc sets of these nifty acacia wood kitchen tools. After 30 years in the same house, every drawer, every canister, every place we might keep these is simply chock full of stuff. So with my nifty 3D printer, I hung them from the backsplash...
I used Fusion 360 and tried real hard to do two things...
1) Define Components before the first sketch or object creation
2) Use the Parameter Table to define nearly everything.
Also, I wanted to use an approach that would make the best use of how the printer lays down plastic. The Clips need to have some give and I wanted the FDM layers to help the flex and not actually separate from the stress of repeated use. The Clips are printed 90 degrees from the Back Plate. The Back Pate benefits by not requiring any support and finished with a nice top surface.
I recently changed my Ender 3's Bowden tube to a Capricorn. I was not able to print TPU before this change. Now that the Ender can print TPU, I thought this might be time to actually make something with it. The size of the Back Plate pretty much fills the build plate of my Ender 3 and while there was plenty of room to put copies of the clip around the edges, they really printed better one at a time.
So the Spurtles work with an 18mm clip. I realized it would be handy to hang whatever Spurtle I was using closer to the stove during cooking. I printed a single clip backplate and mounted it with "Alien Tape" like I used for the 4 position hanger.