If you are tired of smashing your pizza or toast and need to support the heavy upper plate of an electric grill, this print is for you.
The length of the support can be easily adjusted, positioning the upper plate just above the food inside the grill. Delicate foods like croissants or pizza slices can be efficiently heated up without being smashed flat by the weight of the grill plate.
The slider is placed inside the base, with teeth facing the cutout. The lever of the ratchet mechanism and the spring are connected with the base by a 4mm diameter rod or tube. The length of the rod is min. 35mm. The spring is the torsion spring (the type used in clothes clips). It should have an internal diameter larger than 4mm, and an outer diameter of max. 8mm. The maximum width is 16mm, and arms should have a length of around 17mm from the axis of the spring.
Material: PLA or PET (if you run the grill at high temperatures)
Add perimeters to make it stronger. Only ‘ratchet_lever’ requires support.
The author marked this model as their own original creation.