ToiletPaper Roll Holder by XlogicX

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

This is a highly customizable replacement toilet paper roll holder. It is a one piece print that has the spring mechanism built-in as the outer exoskeleton. The recommended material that I remixed the spring idea from recommends using ABS. However, I did my prints in both PLA and CPE with no issues with flexibility. If the result seems to stiff, try increasing the rings variable or decreasing the pillars variable.
I lost the original holder from my apartment (don't ask how one loses such a thing). I bought a replacement from my local hardware store down the block, but the diameter of the pegs were too large to fit. I could have measured mine and looked on Amazon. But I figured that over-engineering a solution to 3D-print was a much better Idea
Variables that you can control:
roll_width: width of the outer part of roll; the radius
ring_width: how wide each ring is going to be
ring_height: the thickness of each ring, 1mm is a pretty good value for me
actual_roll_length; This may vary depending on your holder, but 132mm is a good length for mine
inner_clearance: how much space between the inner beam and the exoskeleton, I used 2mm, but even tighter might work. Too loose will make the roll bendy side to side (maybe not desirable)
rings: How many rings to create. 10-20 is a good range. More rings should make it more flexible, because there's a larger area to distribute the flexing.
pillars: How many pillars per layer. 3 or 4 is a pretty good number for a roll width that is around the same size as the toilet paper inner cardboard. You may need to use 2 or 3 if your making it skinnier
cap_height: how high to make each cap
peg_width: radius of the peg. For sure measure this, mine was 4mm, but not all hardware is the same
peg_length = how high to make each peg, measure your own hole, mine was 3mm
pillar_thickness: thickness of pillars, make this thicker for strength, I've always used 2mm