I want to show you the last piece I made to solve a domestic problem in the shower. Since everyone who lives in the house does not reach the original place of the shower sprinkler which is located at a height where the shortest people cannot reach, we decided that we would leave it above the taps. But here, the problem arose with the angle at which the hose rested, causing me to have to change the hose every six months because it would break due to being in a forced situation in which the rubber deteriorated and punctured. The solution was to make a piece to give it a large enough radius so that it would no longer break. I leave you the .stl file in case anyone encounters the same problem and wants to solve it like I did. The piece in question, I printed in PETG which can withstand up to 85°-90° Celsius, you can also print it with ABS, although it will be more difficult to print. Once printed, I made small holes with a small drill bit on the bottom of the piece, this is because the layer height I used to print it is 0.3mm and this layer height causes a certain porosity, causing the interior of the piece to fill with water when it gets wet, with the holes on the bottom we facilitate the water draining and coming out. To stick the piece to the wall I used this adhesive that I found on Amazon that allows a certain temperature and humidity without unsticking.
That’s a really clever and practical solution! Using PETG for its heat resistance was a smart choice.
Thanks for sharing the file! I’m sure others facing similar issues will find this incredibly useful.
My 3D printer solved another problem in the shower…
It was 9 years ago. My twins were 2 years old. Mommy was washing them in the tub. She closed the tempered glass hanging shower door…and it exploded. Apparently there was a weak spot in the edge, it hit just right, and it propagated through the entire panel. Tempered glass is like that.
The tub filled with broken glass. The babies panicked and tried to climb out,
getting severely cut in the process. Mommy screamed for help. I ran up,
got the babies out, took them to the other bathroom, patched them up as best I could, and then we took them to the emergency room.
After that, my little boy did NOT want to bathe in a tub with glass doors. OK, we went with a low-tech solution - a shower curtain. But we had that nice frame from the glass doors. I really didn’t want to rip it out to install a curtain bar.
Enter the 3D printer: I designed a simple clip that would fit precisely inside the glass door track, with a hanging hook. Measured the inside of the closet track by taking a piece of bamboo skewer stick and cutting it shorter & shorter till it just fit in. Then measured that with a caliper.
The hook worked; I printed out 12 more, and now our shower curtain hangs just fine from that glass-door track.
Thanks for sharing your experience Jerry Kaidor. In my case I paid for the printer, thanks to another piece that I was selling for some time, I preferred to share this piece that I designed to solve the problem I had in the shower, with all of you.
The piece with which I managed to pay for the printer is a grille for the heat outlet of a model of refrigerator for motorhomes and caravans that is discontinued and that one day I was asked to draw and print, in fact, very occasionally, I still sell some.
It is printed with PETG, it has total dimensions of 480 x 370 x 35 millimeters. Taking advantage of the double extrusion I make the supports with water-soluble filament and it takes me more than 72 hours to print the entire grille.
