Milk Bottle Toppers

Colour-coded toppers for plastic milk bottles
2h 2m
1× print file
0.20 mm
0.40 mm
14.00 g
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updated January 1, 2025

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In the UK, plastic milk bottles used to come with brightly coloured tops to identify the type of milk: blue for full cream (whole) milk, green for semi-skimmed, and red for skimmed milk. Some years ago, to enable recycling, these tops were first toned down to very pale colours and now they are not coloured at all.

If you keep multiple types of milk in your fridge, perhaps to cater for different family members' tastes, you may miss being able to instantly identify your favourite type without looking at the label - this design is for you!

So that you don't have to worry about printing with a food-safe filament, these toppers simply press fit over the supplied tops, and are easily removed for reuse.  This size works for milk sold in several major UK supermarkets (tested with Tesco, M&S and Sainsbury's) but of course you can adjust as required using the scaling function in your slicer.

I've printed these with 0.25mm layer height and 0% infill.  Enjoy!

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