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Wall mounted toothbrush holder

by dezbot, published

Wall mounted toothbrush holder by dezbot Jun 4, 2011

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Description

I needed some toothbrush holders for the bathroom that could be mounted to the wall. Initially I printed the thing from PieterBos thingiverse.com/thing:5497. Although it was functional after printing it I felt that it took too much material and had an inorganic feel to it with the hard crisp edgess of the design.

I wanted a softer feeling object so I designed these gender coded male and female toothbrush holders in Sketchup. I'm pretty happy with the outcome and its features:

Rounded, soft edges
Small, effecient design with minimal use of material
Snappy tactile feedback when toothbrush gets locked into holder
Embossed with international male / female gender glyphs
Counter sunk mounting screw hole

Here's probably the only video in the world of a toothbrush holder demonstration. First!

youtube.com/watch?v=aY5x6RKtRAg

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Is anyone selling these toothbrush holders. I love them, want 4 please! Let me know. Thx

I would prefer it if it were a toothbrush mounted wall holder. I'm always losing my walls.

I printed a few out several weeks ago and both the female ones broke very soon, while both the male ones are still working. I don't know if that's because my other half is reckless or because half the prints came out poorly.

I do know that these are difficult to print well with 3mm filament and a 0.5mm nozzle, and they could do with some reinforcement at the base of the clips, like a small fillet or chamfer on the inside line.

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petdesign on Jun 17, 2012 said:

Is anyone selling these toothbrush holders. I love them, want 4 please! Let me know. Thx

tlalexander on Oct 20, 2011 said:

I would prefer it if it were a toothbrush mounted wall holder. I'm always losing my walls.

4ndy on Oct 20, 2011 said:

I printed a few out several weeks ago and both the female ones broke very soon, while both the male ones are still working. I don't know if that's because my other half is reckless or because half the prints came out poorly.

I do know that these are difficult to print well with 3mm filament and a 0.5mm nozzle, and they could do with some reinforcement at the base of the clips, like a small fillet or chamfer on the inside line.

mirk on Aug 22, 2011 said:

I love the snapping action on this thing!

Did you calculate the flex, or use trial and error until it worked right?

dezbot on Sep 2, 2011 said:

I just got lucky with a few trial and error prints.

charlespax on Jun 6, 2011 said:

This is a perfect Thingiverse entry. You've got good photos of the printed object, demonstration video, STLs, and source files. Well done!

PieterBos on Jun 5, 2011 said:

Hehe yeah mine is a bit bulky i admit :-) these look much better. also cool vid 8-)

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