VSOs are my favorite thing about owning a 3d printer. Was cleaning my closet the other day and came across my old desktop speakers where the stand for one had broken and I printed something to hold it upright that fit better than I expected on a first draft. Was kinda sad tossing it out.
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I'm pleased to announce I got this one right on the first try, but it's a very simple shape and I did take three measurements first: The height and thickness of the crossbar, there, and the height at which the drawer rides on its little track.
My very first "design" was cord wrangler that fit the exact number of things I needed to charge and was the exact thickness for my no-name pressboard nightstand with a gap that matched an opening in the back. It was exactly what I needed.
Good on you, I think most people would have lit a desk like that on fire. Are you certain there isn't a missing piece at the bottom of the IKEA box? What a horrendous design.
There definitely is not. And I have two of them, so I can compare between them.
Well, if you have any moral compass the only thing to do is print a bunch of QR code stickers that link to your stl and go to your nearest ikea and slap them on the boxes for this desk.
...Fine. And I'll go have some more meatballs while I'm at it.
I like how you think 😆
I used 3d printing to make custom screw covers. Looks like that IKEA piece could use some, too!
What is VSO?
Very Specific Object.
My first VSO was a clip for this garnish/trim for some blinds my mom had. Due to the way the blinds fit in this specific window, my mom couldn't use the factory hardware to fix the garnish to the blinds, so for the longest time she was using adhesives which would fail over time. One day (shortly before my printer arrived) the garnish fell again and almost hit my cat, my mom expressed frustration over it, and over how she would have to go by more adhesives. I reminded her that I'm getting a printer, I could just make something that would mount it permanently.
My second one was two mounts for my IKEA lack enclosure. I wanted to make a Nevermore filter, so I needed a power supply. Thanks to working at an electronics lab, I managed to score the power supply from a server rack PC. It's absolute overkill for this, but it came out looking pretty clean, even modeled in a mounting hole for a simple toggle switch so I can activate the power supply without having to plug/unplug the unit.
New Lemmy Post: VSO! Ikea Drawer Stopper Fix (https://lemmy.world/post/12524538)
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Beautiful.