Recycled Bottle Coat Hanger
Description
One thing to note is that the holes to accept the threads to the bottles are not threaded. A compression fit seems to work well enough.
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This thing is part of a final project for CPSC 183 Technology and the Law with Prof. Brad Rosen at Yale University. The idea of this project is to ask friends for ideas for physical objects that they would like to have that could be printed on the Makerbot TOM. I have designed them, printed them out and given them to the people who requested them. I also have uploaded them here to Thingiverse to add to the library of physical objects that people find cool, useful, or just plain fun!
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Instructions
If you would rather try to screw your bottles in, I would scale it up a few percent (3-5). Don't scale too much though or you won't anything to grab the inner surface. Of course, unless you would rather just push the bottle top right into the socket.
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This is genius !
On second thought it seems like steel wire coat-hangers are probably more environmentally friendly -- most metals rust away faster than anything else can decompose, and its not clear that ABS used in 3D printing is really environmentally friendly, especially since we don't have good ways of recycling prints yet. PLA is 'Biodegradable' but will only degrade faster than normal plastic under special conditions, if I understand correctly. There are many problems to solve before 3D printing can be considered sustainable.
This idea is amazingly clever! What a wonderful way to combine a 3D printer and recycling bottles to make a useful product. :)
Awesome! Its kind of funny looking, but its definitely a way to recycle 2 bottles for something useful!
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you said you used makerbot to print this!?
Sure did with an MK6! I have made some tweaks to my skeinforge preferences, but no extensive hardware upgrades.