AtHome Pole Socket
Description
This thing is a Pole Socket. It comes in a matched set. One side is a closed socket, and the other side is half closed. This allows you to mount them on opposite walls, slide the pole into the closed one,and drop it into the half open holder on the other side.
There's a counter sunk hole in the center of each so a nice flat head screw can nestle in there and not get in the way.
I do want to add some little support, or rounding, or something to the outside of the socket so it is more stable in practice.
Instructions
2) Fit a flat head screw (roughly 4mm) in the middle and fasten it to your wall
3) Fit the pole into one side, and then drop it on top of the opening in the other.
4) Rejoice!
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I'd be interested in hearing how much weight this can hold. Being that it would be stressed along the plastic lamination lines. Seems like it might need to be thicker and possibly printed with a high infill.
i'm not sure of the strength. If you wanted to calculate, you'd have to think about both the torque force from the bar (weight, length, opposite support), as well as the shear force from the weight of the hanging clothes.
I'm guessing that with a solid infill, and a .25mm layer thickness, and a bar that hugs fairly tight, it would be good enough to make a typical closet run. More so if the bar is supported within about 4 feet of the ends, for a longer run.
Lots of variables. One thing I want to do for the design
though is put tiny little triangles of support on the outside cylinder. That should at least help with some of the shear force.
At any rate, at least this fairly standard household item is out there for people to riff on and come up with ultimates.
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great idea. you could always tilt the part and build it with support to get the layers in a different direction from the direction of stress. 100% infill would probably be as strong as a store bought part as well. you have uploaded some really great things here in the past few months. thanks
like this (rotate part for strength and ease of printing)
http://pleasantsoftware.com/de...
Thanks for the tilting suggestion. I've tried tilting various pieces of things along the way, but not this particular one. That would probably help the stress lines. I might also print it on it's 'side', so the lamination lines run parallel with the support bar.
I'm glad you like the various designs. These are all part of my "learning OpenScad" experience. I'll probably do a completely different set of things for learning Alibre, or whatever visual tool I pick up. Then they're sure to be 'pretty'.