Clothes peg - Clothespin

The plastic part of clothes pegs has a tendency to break or disengage after a while. The spring, however, remains functional. Don't throw away your clothes pegs anymore, rebuild them.

I propose you this structure that allows you to reuse the spring to rebuild a new clothespin.

I have performed several tests, the result depends on the quality of the print and the filament.

I used an Alfawise U20 to print it, but of course you can print it with the PLA, the printer, and the software you want and master.

You can print it in layer height 0.2 or 0.1.

I used:

• a layer height in 0.2 ;

• a 20% filling, cubic;

• a nozzle temperature of 205°, and without heating plate ;

• no support.

The file represents a half clamp (symmetrical). So you need 2 of them to make a clamp.

For 2 clamps (4 files) I needed: 14g and 4.73m of filament, or about 0.31 €. About half an hour per clamp.

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Clothespin

The plastic part of the clothes pegs tends, after a while, break or dislodge itslef. The spring however remains functional. Do not throw away your clothespins, rebuild them.

I propose this structure that allows you to reuse the spring to rebuild a new clothespin.

I have done several tests, the result depends on the quality of the print and the filament.

I used an Alfawise U20 to print it, but of course you can print it with the PLA, the printer, and the software you want and master.

You can print it in 0.2 or 0.1 layer height.

I used :

a layer height of 0.2;

a 20% filling, in cubic form;

a nozzle temperature of 205 °, and without a heating plate;

• no support.

The 3D file represents a half-clothespin (symmetrical). So you need 2 to make a full clothespin.

For 2 clothespin (4 files) it took me: 14 g and 4.73 m of filament, about 0.31 €. About half an hour per clothespin.

a layer height in 0.2 ;

a 20% filling, cubic;

a nozzle temperature of 205°, and without heating plate ;

no support.