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Stackable drawer skewer shelves for plastic takeaway boxes (low filament)

Butt ugly but functional stackable shelves for reused plastic takeaway containers
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updated December 19, 2024

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Look, I'll be honest. These are probably the fugliest shelves you will ever see. They probably can't support a lot of weight and they're a pain to assemble. But I just got so sick of seeing so many beautiful but overengineered shelves on here that use like 300 g of filament and took 17229384 hours to print. When my goal was to avoid waste by reusing takeaway containers, using tons of filament to print a massive behemoth to stack them kinda defeats the purpose. And I'm also incredibly impatient. 

My goal for these was to use minimal filament, be stackable, print reasonably fast and be modular and adjustable. These use “mint” bamboo skewers from Woolies available in Australia which have a rough diameter of 2.5 mm (I used the 16 cm length skewers, which fit standard AU takeaway containers). The fit of the skewers into the holes is a bit tight which makes it difficult to assemble but I wanted to avoid it sliding around. Even with 100% infill on the vertical poles for strength, it still only uses around 21 g of filament for each stackable unit of two pieces. There is a cap piece as well to cap off the top shelf and provide a bit more stability. The holes are spaced 1 cm apart.

I printed with a brim for stability, it's a lil tall but printed fine on my P1S. 

Is it pretty? No. Is it easy to put together? Also no. Is it well-designed and stable? I mean, sorta?… But if you just want a low filament way to stack some takeaway boxes, here's your model.

Onshape file is here if you want to customise it. I tried to use variables to allow easier customisation but it's all a bit of a mess… Good luck <3 

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