Sliding Door Offset Roller

Spent some time at my local maker space this weekend doing some projects while running some long jobs on the larger laser machine.
The door to the bathroom is a sliding style barn door. The door has some heavy extension cords hanging on it which was causing the bottom of the door to cant in toward the wall.

This caused a number of issues such as the inside latch hitting the inside right of the door way and the bottom of the door catching the cove base on the outside left.

Originally there was a piece that fastened to the floor and ran through a slot in the bottom of the door to keep it in the right plane. It kept getting broken loose and finally disappeared.

My fix was to 3d print a bracket to hold a 3d printer wheel that fasten to the inside right of the doorway.

Mounted with some screws with the bracket pushed out enough to align the bottom of the door properly.

Since this was a functional print I opted to print the bracket vertically with the top down. This caused a longer print time with the supports for the mounting slots, but allows the forces on the wheel arm to be perpendicular to the layer lines rather than parallel. Hence making it stronger. Printed on a Bambu X1C in black PLA+

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I worked for a large corporation that makes automatic doors. Your fix is top grade., As always.
On commercial doors it would be hidden inside a bottom track

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