Bottle Drying Rack with Concrete-Filled Base

My take on a bottle drying rack. It uses wooden dowels, printed fittings, and a printed base filled with concrete for stability.

Our dish rack can get a little gross and we were using our limited counterspace and a kitchen towel to dry our baby's bottles. This rack makes use of vertical space and looks nice.

Print Settings

Printer:

Prusa MK2.5S

Rafts:

No

Resolution:

30%

Filament: 3D Solutech PLA White

Notes:

Prints without supports. You will get some droopage on the underside of the base, but it's made to be filled with concrete so that doesn't matter.

Post-Printing

The lengths and sizes of dowels are:

0.5" wooden dowel 97mm x 1 78mm x 3

0.3125" wooden dowel 60mm x 3 80mm x 3 100mm x 3 120mm x 3

For the 0.3124" dowel a 48" long rod from Lowes was just long enough.

I cut the dowels to length, then rounded over and sanded them down for a smooth feel and sealed them with foodsafe beeswax.

I turned the base over and mixed a small batch of concrete to pour in the bottom then let it cure. There are angled tabs on the bottom of the base to make sure the concrete doesn't come out once hardened.

You can glue all the dowels together with super glue or wood glue. You can glue the "branches" staggered or aligned, depending on your preference.

How I Designed This

This design was created with a set of calipers and Fusion 360.