Hidey-Hole Doorstop (for TPU or similar)

Sometimes 3D printing can actually be quite practical! I needed a couple of door stops, the rubbery sort that you often find on doors that open into a tiled wall. I could perhaps have gone to a local hardware store, but I did have some TPU lying around, and I had already got caught up with the idea that perhaps you could store very small valuables in a fiendishly clever doorstop design!

I'm sure I was far from the first person to think of such a thing, of course - I'd noticed that you can pull the rubbery bit off a conventional doorstop and stuff valuables in there, but it got me thinking about what might improve the experience.

And so, the first design was built around a nice coarse thread, to allow the doorstop to be taken off and put back on without concern about a friction-fit connection being compromised by wear or cleaning products or whatever! Okay, maybe that's not realistically a concern, but still, I liked the idea of a thread much better.

Unthreading the doorstop still felt like it could be improved upon and made slightly more interesting, though, and this is where magnets leapt onto the scene! Soon I had a new version of the doorstop that used a bayonet-style twist lock incorporating four magnets (our good old 6mm x 3mm cylindrical ones, as usual), and that was much more fun to use :)

And just because there needed to be more parts, there were soon containers sized to fit nicely in the doorstop. There are two versions: one is a conventional tube with a threaded lid, while the other is split in half down its length, and the lid holds those halves together.

Print Description

There are two main parts here - the mount and the doorstop itself. Regardless of whether you're using the magnet version or the threaded version you'll want to print the doorstop body in TPU or similar flexible filament, and the mount in something rigid like PLA or ABS.

Important note: the hole on the inside of the doorstop is sized to fit 4mm screws for attachment to the door.

Print Dimensions

The doorstop body occupies 35mm x 35mm on the print bed and is 75mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This should scale readily if you are so inclined!

Print Orientation

The TPU doorstop body prints with the open end down and the rounded end up.

The mounts print flat-side down and thread up.

Further Thoughts

I almost forgot the other main advantage of printing such things rather than buying an off-the-shelf version - you don't have to settle for plain white! Candy striped bathroom doorstop, here I come! :D

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.

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485 Hidey-Hole Doorstop