Wire access grommit
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Published on April 19, 2011
Description
The table in my workshop/man cave was in desperate need of some cable management. The best way I could see fixing this problem is by running some of my cables down through the desk. The only issue with this is that I would then have a huge ugly hole in the middle of my desk. So this was the good news moment of my day.
Good News: I had a white 2″ desk gromit I could use to fill the hole and class things up a bit.
Bad News: My desk is black.
I had some black ABS already loaded in my Thing-o-Matic so I took the next logical step and reached for my digital caliper to get modeling. In about 15 minutes I was able to make a nearly exact scale model of my white desk gromit in Google Sketchup.
You can read more about my design process in this blog post:
thenewhobbyist.com/2011/04/everyday-fixes-with-makerbot-1-desk-gromit/
Good News: I had a white 2″ desk gromit I could use to fill the hole and class things up a bit.
Bad News: My desk is black.
I had some black ABS already loaded in my Thing-o-Matic so I took the next logical step and reached for my digital caliper to get modeling. In about 15 minutes I was able to make a nearly exact scale model of my white desk gromit in Google Sketchup.
You can read more about my design process in this blog post:
thenewhobbyist.com/2011/04/everyday-fixes-with-makerbot-1-desk-gromit/
Instructions
The top fits snuggly into the base without being too hard to remove. It actually holds on a little better than the store bought model.
This model can be scaled up or down to fit various hole sizes, the full size model will fit a 2 inch hole.
I've also included my SketchUp model if you would like to make modifications beyond scaling.
This model can be scaled up or down to fit various hole sizes, the full size model will fit a 2 inch hole.
I've also included my SketchUp model if you would like to make modifications beyond scaling.
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License
Wire access grommit by TheNewHobbyist is licensed under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Creative Commons license.
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cool, another thing off my 'to design' list.
Thanks!