Festivous tealight shadow casters

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Published on December 3, 2010

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These are printed tealight holders with a seperate piece to cast a shadow on the wall. Do not use PLA! Both ABS and PLA are flammable, use at your own risk! I designed it with air holes for a metal tea-light candle, this should be safe and keep high temperatures away from your plastic - just make sure to use with the kind of tea light that's poured into a metal cup!

There's some amount of variability in tea lights. I designed these for 1.5" diameter lights, if your tea lights vary, you can use the included openscad file to customize.

I've printed 8 of these already, with more on the way. I plan to set them in a box at work with a sign "Free - take one, Merry XMas!" If you want to tweak the shape of the tea light holder for less plastic, lower profile, or quicker printing - I included the .scad file I used. It should be possible to reduce the printed volume by about half and still have it be 100% functional... there's some variability in commercial tea lights, this was designed for tea lights with a slightly undersized 1.5" metal cup - you can customize for your own tea lights with the .scad, as well.

I've burned several tea lights all the way down in these with no ill effects yet - the plastic did not seem melted or deformed in anyway directly under the candle cup afterwards.

Instructions

Print one base and one arm piece. The arm piece might need minor trimming to fit properly. Make sure to face the best side of the arm "inward" when gluing - this will be the side you see when in use. Use a few drops of superglue to make the connection permanent, allow to dry overnight before lighting candle. For maximum festivity, try these color combinations:

Base - white, Arm - white angel
Base - white, Arm - white xmas star
Base - green, Arm - green xmas tree
Base - green, Arm - red xmas star
Base - green, Arm - red angel
Base - red, Arm - green xmas tree
Base - red, Arm - green xmas star
Base - red, Arm - green angel

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I'm entering this in the holiday competition - if you print it out, please come back and post a picture! Also don't forget to rate / like this thing, if you like it that is!