This is a remix from a design by Xiirs
One of my hobbies is PUBG (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds). I reworked a loot box and used a lock that can be opened from the outside with magnets. You can't see that it contains anything. If you don't put the key with the magnets right next to the box, it's a good hiding place. Of course, the box also opens with brute force, but that doesn't help much with 3D printing results anyway.
Print:
- The box itself in red must be printed with support for the lock bolts.
- The lid in blue should be printed with support for the M3 nuts and the pins on which the springs are pushed so that the nuts can be firmly seated in the lid or glued in and the feathers don't pop off in the finished lap after removing the support.
- The lap itself only needs support at the pins for the springs and it should print with sufficient infill (40% for me on all parts).
- The cover is again a simple print without support with sufficient filling.
- & 6. Both parts of the key can be printed without support but with sufficient filling.
You also need 4 screws M3x20 mm, two compression springs 5.5x38 mm and 4 neodymium cube magnets 10x10x10 mm.
Assembly:
- Support material must be removed from the box, the slots for the M3 nuts and the pins for the springs in the lid and lock. You should now also check whether the lid can be easily placed on the box and remove annoying relics on the parts.
- Insert the nuts in the corners of the cover. I glued them and make sure they were in the right position with the screws beforehand. Now you should try screwing the lock cover onto the lid (do not pull too hard) so that problems with the cover can be eliminated before steps 5 and 6 get fiddly.
- Now stick the magnets on the key in the same orientation and then stick the cover.
- Now glue the magnets into the lock. They do interfere with inserting the springs, but they have to be glued in before the cover is fully assembled. When gluing, you can put the upper, actually wrong side of the key on the side with the continuous bottom under the magnet. Then you are also sure that the magnets in the lock are inserted with the correct orientation.
- Inserting the springs between the cover and the lock is a bit fiddly. First you should check individually whether the springs fit on the pins in the lock. Then insert the springs in the lid and fix them with glue if they are too loose. Now hold the lock over the lid and place the springs on the pins and glue them if necessary. Now carefully put the lock on the lid and put the springs under pressure. Now place the key on the lid to hold the lock in the closed position. You should now also check that the lock can be turned easily with the key but not to the open position, otherwise the springs could push the lock out of the lid without the cover. If that happens, take a flashlight or a magnet to find the springs on the floor ;-).
- When the lock is in the lid, the last step is to screw the cover.
Now the lock can be turned into the position with the key, in which the recesses of the lock sit in the recess in the cover. So the lid can be placed on the box. Now turn the key back and check whether the lock also sits in the lid on all sides in the lid. You open the lock in which you carefully put the key on the lid. The key automatically finds the correct position through the magnets. The recesses in the key indicate in which direction the key is to be turned to open the lock. How far you have to press is a matter of feeling. If the lid slips slightly onto the box, you can simply lift it with the key in the correct position. For close it, look into the lid from below and turn the key so that the recesses sit on top of each other. Hold briefly against the pressure of the springs and put it on the box. If the lid does not slip on the box away, turn the key back and forth. After closing the key, first turn away from one magnet and then pull the side from the other and not store the key in a secure space near credit cards or other parts that are influenced by magnets.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UiOhca2VfGw
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The author remixed this model.