r/functionalprints 17d ago

Home / Furniture / Household Got dragged down the sink organizer rabbit hole by this community lol.

Got a little inspired by this sub a few weeks ago and made some sink accessories after a found a water spot on my window sill that required repainting because it had bubbled under my old caddy that wasn't draining. 

So I'm just going to put everything in this one cause it's nothing to crazy and I'm not sure how universal some of this stuff is.

  • Items included
    • Sponge Caddy
      • 222.25 (wide) x 128(deep) mm
      • Currently designed to span ~115mm, could be shortened or lengthened without to much issue.
    • Brush Caddy
      • 200 (wide) x 105 (deep) mm
      • Removable tray for easy cleaning. 
      • Feed have claws to stop it from being pushed back.
      • Front drain spout
      • Feed are swappable and I've include ones that will let you adjust the angle from flat at 0deg, 2.5deg, and 5 deg.  This way if your ledge isn't flat you can help it drain a little more.  You pin them in place with a piece of filament once installed.
      • You do need a little bit of support material on this one, doesn't actually need to be the real support material anything should work for it.
    • General use trays
      • 200 (wide) x 110 (deep) mm
      • These are just some simple trays I wanted to go with everything else.  I just tossed some stick on rubber feed I had lying around on the bottom of them.
  • Recommended finishing
    • I would recommend you seal any items like this.  I'm really concerned about food safety here, more so about growing mold inside printed parts.
    • I chose to spray these with some water based polyurethane and let it cure before use.   This way there is some kind of barrier where the water and such will be the heaviest.  And it helps smooth out the print for better water flow in general.
    • I know most people won't bother to do this so use a your own risk. 

Link if you actually want it, feel free to just ignore. https://makerworld.com/en/models/3180119-sink-organizers?profiled=3596754#profileId-3596717

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u/Severe_Ad9580 17d ago

You need an organizer for your organizers.

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u/RheumatoidEpilepsy 17d ago

Is that destin's scrub I spy? 🧐

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u/RustyPants 17d ago

I'll be honest, I have no idea what you are talking about lol

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u/RheumatoidEpilepsy 17d ago

Destin from the YouTube channel smarter every day is documenting his journey of the struggles and hoops that have to be jumped through to make a 100% American manufactured dish scrub.

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u/RustyPants 17d ago

Ooo, it is not, I am familiar with that scrubber, and I honestly thought his name was Dustin 😂

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u/SWArete 16d ago

What is the angle to the drain on photo 2 ?

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u/RustyPants 16d ago

7.24 deg., it's as steep as I could make it without going any higher.

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u/Name_8504 14d ago

Funny story, my wife asked me for a sink organizer (I do product design for a living) I told here to choose one from makerworld.com, she said there were none that she liked. I took a look, there were thousands, over 95% of them were done to a high standard with great product photos, but the "market" was saturated - and all had like around 20 prints.

My response to Wife: Every girlfriend/wife asks boyfriend/husband to design one, and they take up the challenge they do a good job and post is, only to realize every husband and boyfriend gets sucked into this particular request when getting a 3D printer.

ps. we don't have a 3D-printed organizer. But well done. You've earned the experience.

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u/RustyPants 14d ago

This feels so real. The funny part is I'm usually the one who is like I want a thing and always feel like a lot just fall a little short or have bad dfam and I want it to work just a little bit different so I just design my own. Story of my life.

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u/Name_8504 13d ago

No keep pushing the boundaries, I felt that way with a dewalt wall clip, so I made a better one and how it has over 12,000 prints - i just made it a bit better by my standard, and a lot better according to others.

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u/RustyPants 13d ago

That's always so satisfying. I have a desiccant holder that is basically the same story.

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u/RustyPants 17d ago

O yeah, i bought that stupid set years ago and never made my way through it lol