Quake MedPack

After the success of my Nailgun Lunchbox, I wanted to make a practical medpack in the same style, after a long gestation period, here we have it!

The medpack is based loosely round the second life model of the medpack and can be made as a pure dustcollector piece or have extra parts added to be a functional storage for your first aid kit.

What you will need:

• Up to 1kg spool of grey filament
• 300g of black filament
• 1kg of army green filament
• 200g of red filament
• 12x 8mm x 3mm neodymium magnets
• CA glue
• 4x m4 6mm bolts (can be countersunk, not so important here)
• 4x m4 20mm countersunk bolts
• 4x m4 12mm countersunk bolts

Printing parts:

All parts have alignment instructions on the parts descriptions.

All the final prints were .16 nozzle matte pla with 2 walls and 10% gyroid infill.

There are some special supports instructions in the file descriptions.

Assembly Instructions:

Base 

1. Gather the base plates and the base brace, 4 countersunk 6mm bolts (these can be normal 6mm bolts as the heads can protrude a bit if needed).
2. Ensure the supports from the base plates are cleared off - the plates should sit flush with each other, if they do not, lightly sand / smooth them to flush fitting.
3. The base plate and corner naming are referenced as if you are looking at the unit from the drawer front, by this i mean FL - front left - would be the left hand corner closest to you, BL - back left - would be the left hand corner furthest from you.
4. Ensure you have your corners laid out correctly and bolt the central brace to the corners, it is probably best at this stage to leave it only bolted together and glue later once you're further through the build.
5. Additional Functional build step: Gather your rack left and rack right pieces and bolt these to the base from the underside using the 12mm countersunk bolts

Corners

1. Gather the 4 corner pieces, the 4 corner braces, make sure all support material is removed from the brace sockets in the corner pieces.
2. Carefully join the front corner pieces with a brace, be careful as you ease the brace into its housing, these are easy to break (but cheap to reprint if it breaks)
3. Repeat the process with the back pieces, you should have 2 assemblies at this point.
4. Combine the two assemblies with another two braces you should end up with a corner assembly that stands up by itself.
5. Test fit the corner assembly onto your base assembly, if they fit together you can safely glue the base plates to each other (not to the corners!), I used some small spring clamps to keep the baseplace secure during glue up.

Sides & top

This stage is the largest differing stage for decorative to functional, due to this i will split these into two versions:

Decorative Sides and top assembly:

1. Gather your 4 side pieces and the top plate
2. Dismount the corner assembly from the base assembly
3. Using gentle force, widen the feet of each corner and slot in a side piece to fit over the lugs on the corners
4. Repeat this for each side and dry fit it all to the base plate assembly again, if it no longer fits, you may have the sides sitting on the lugs rather than over them, or your slots on the sides need clearing of their supports, double check and refit.
5. Dismount the corner and side assembly from base once again
6. Glue the sides on the Left, Right and back sides at the top and bottom lugs, reseating onto the base assembly helps with alignment while setting up.
7. Once the glue has set, remove from the base and fit the front piece the same way
8. slide the front side up a few mil and slot the top plate into the back side, align with the front side and push it down to slot the whole thing together
9. If it all fits then pop the front side up again, take out the top plate, apply glue to the stepped edge at the back of the top plate and slot into the back side piece
10. Apply glue to the lugs of the front side corners, put a glue line on the front side of the top plate, align it with the front side and click it all together
11. Reseat it back onto the base while the glue sets

Functional Sides and top assembly:

1. Gather your 2 sides, the back piece, front piece, 12 magnets, a hard solid surface, top plate, 5x small cut studs.
2. Mark your magnets on the same side of all of them (i used a sharpie), so you can press SIX of them all into the back side magnet slots in the same orientation, these are snug and you may need to deburr the magnet slots to fit, use your hard surface to apply even pressure to fit them, if you hear the model crunching, it probably needs fine tuning. They should not need glue to fit
3. Dismount the corner assembly from the base assembly
4. Widen the back corners feet slightly, and slot in the back side panel, gluing it by the lugs once you're happy with the dry fit
5. Gather your cut studs and glue them to the front cut stud spaces on the front drawer front opening panel, make sure the bottom of the cut stud is flush with the front edge.
6. Working on the front is a little more delicate, to ensure strength, the lugs are longer and the front has less material in it to support it, i found i needed to ever so slightly loosen the corner bracing across the front to get this front slotted in
7. Dry fit the front to test and understand the process, once confident, glue this in place with a bead of glue down the lug length on the corner.
8. Reseat on the base assembly and apply spring clamps to keep the front attached to the corners for glue setting
9. Once set, dismount the base and corners again
10. Using gentle force, widen the feet of each corner on the left and right sides, slot in the left and right side pieces
11. Dry fit it to the base plate assembly again, if it no longer fits, you may have the sides sitting on the lugs rather than over them, double check and refit.
12. Dismount the corners from the base and slot in the back plate, test fitting it on the base and then pushing the back vertically up a bit, this allows you enough space to slot the top plate into the front side and the back side, which you can then push down so all sides are seated correctly
13. Once happy with the top plate dry fit, pop the back side up a bit, take out the top plate, run a bead of glue along the front and back slots of the top plate and repeat the fitting process to site the top plate.
14. Check the side panels on the left and right can still move independent of the main body, you want this to be tight as these side compartments are held in by friction.

Once its all set, you can bolt the base to the corner assembly using the 20mm countersunk bolts OR you can use the 4x ARC connector clips to join them together - be warned, using the arc connectors means you will NOT be able to take it apart again (i didnt use the arc connectors in my build).

Decorative parts:

1. For the decorative version, the task is now gluing on all the studs, crosses, buttons, the slider and energy bar on the medpack and you are done!

Functional drawers:

1. Gather the AT and BT drawers, one keyway, 5x cut studs, the top half cross and the top drawer front panel
2. Glue the upper cross and cut studs to the front drawer panel ensuring the smooth flat side lines up with the drawer front edge. make sure the cross piece is the right one, it should be flush with the edge of the drawer, not overhanging it.
3. Using the marks on your remaining magnets, press 3 magnets into the drawer back in the correct alignment ;)
4. Glue the keyway into the slot on the back of the drawer front
5. Glue the two halves of the drawer together
6. Slot the drawer into the top runners on the medpack until the magnets grab and secure it
7. Glue the front panel to the drawer making sure you line up the drawer evenly with the studs
8. Using your hand in the bottom drawer slot, pop the drawer out and put on some clamps to keep the front secure as it sets.
9. Gather the A and B drawers, your remaining keyway, the front lower drawer panel, the lower cut cross, one button and 5 studs
10. Glue on the studs, button, cross and keyway to the front panel, make sure the cross piece is the right one, it should be flush with the edge of the drawer, not overhanging it.
11. Using the marks on your remaining 3 magnets, press the magnets into the drawer back in the correct alignment ;)
12. Glue the two halves of the drawer together
13. Slot in the drawer to the medbox and glue the front panel on, test fit the top drawer at the same time to ensure alignment of the bottom drawer front, once happy, remove the top drawer, pop the bottom drawer out from inside and clamp to secure it as it cures.

Functional Decorative finish:

1. Apply all the extra studs, crosses, buttons, etc to all sides