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Wire Spool Box
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Published on April 18, 2012
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This is a bench top organizer for small spools of wire or solder. I have a ton of them all over the place and the get unruly. This is my attempt at organizing them all in the same place.
The 'axles' are offset in hopes of preventing the spools from colliding with one another.
The top of the box has a crude metric ruler without markings. I'd love to make this better.
This box is cut from 3mm plywood. I use Luau wood because a giant sheet of it costs $10 and they cut it down into laserbed sized pieces. (What is with people uploading designs that don't include material width? Or filetypes of proprietary software for that matter?).
The Axle holes are 5mm diameter to accomodate this 5mm(ish) aluminum stock I picked up at the local hobby shop for $2.
This is all rendered from openscad so please give me feedback on material width/axle size and I will glady provide the dxf's.
The 'axles' are offset in hopes of preventing the spools from colliding with one another.
The top of the box has a crude metric ruler without markings. I'd love to make this better.
This box is cut from 3mm plywood. I use Luau wood because a giant sheet of it costs $10 and they cut it down into laserbed sized pieces. (What is with people uploading designs that don't include material width? Or filetypes of proprietary software for that matter?).
The Axle holes are 5mm diameter to accomodate this 5mm(ish) aluminum stock I picked up at the local hobby shop for $2.
This is all rendered from openscad so please give me feedback on material width/axle size and I will glady provide the dxf's.
Instructions
1) Cut pieces. Save little square hole pieces from the front panel.
2) Assemble the box. I use tape to hold the box together and then glue the joints from the inside. I notice (atleast on my machines) at 3mm material you end up with a slight bit of material loss in the teeth that prevent them from holding together as firmly as you'd like. This shouldn't be as apparent in thicker materials).
3) Use a few of the square pieces you saved as a brace for the back panel to screw in hinges. Again this isn't necessary but a nice thing to do when your material is so thin.
4) Insert 'axles'/wire spools close box and enjoy.
This is my first thing! I'm quickly becoming obsessed with openscad and useful creation. I would really appreciate feedback on how this can be made better or maybe things you'd like to see me attempt.
2) Assemble the box. I use tape to hold the box together and then glue the joints from the inside. I notice (atleast on my machines) at 3mm material you end up with a slight bit of material loss in the teeth that prevent them from holding together as firmly as you'd like. This shouldn't be as apparent in thicker materials).
3) Use a few of the square pieces you saved as a brace for the back panel to screw in hinges. Again this isn't necessary but a nice thing to do when your material is so thin.
4) Insert 'axles'/wire spools close box and enjoy.
This is my first thing! I'm quickly becoming obsessed with openscad and useful creation. I would really appreciate feedback on how this can be made better or maybe things you'd like to see me attempt.
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Wire Spool Box by lordnynex is licensed under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Creative Commons license.
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What is your source for the wood? I have only found 3mm plywood in small pieces at hobby shops for ~$4 each.
In the US I purchase Luau wood from Lowes. It comes i 4ftx8ft sheets that I have them cut into 6 even panels. One sheet costs $10.00 so each panel is around a little over $1.00.