Freezer/Storage Bag Dryer Rack

Concerned about the impact of plastic on our environment? Re-use your freezer and storage bags!

We like to wash our freezer bags and re-use them. Wife used to have a drying rack like the one here that she bought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Well, the drying rack broke so I was tasked to design a replacement one. Here's the result. It can hold up to 3 bags.

The flower "stem" is modular. Use two parts for a gallon-sized bag, or one part for quart-sized bags.

Credits:

The flower is Red Tulip 12 by spezzer (https://www.tinkercad.com/things/ghsTBsJFAns-red-tulip-12)
The idea for sacrificial supports for the stems comes from FFFTechnology's e-vise 2 (https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/52457-e-vise-v2)
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Print 1 base, 3 flowers, 6 stems.

I would suggest using PETG but I don't think PLA should be a problem. It's not that these bags are dripping wet.

I printed the base and flowers with 0.2 mm layer height, with "supports on build plate only" for the flowers.

The stems were printed with 0.3 mm layer height, 15% gyroid infill, and 5 perimeters. The stem components come with built-in sacrificial supports, to stabilize them. They should easily break away. You can use additional supports in the slicer for the hole in the bottom. If not, use needle-nose pliers to remove sagging filament from the bridged area inside the hole.

Disclaimer: The pegs/holes are dimensioned to provide a snug press-fit on MY printer. Printers have different tolerances, so for your printer the fit may be too tight or too loose. In which case you may have to use a dremel/sanding tool on the pegs, or you may want to try to adjust the stems by scaling them somewhere between 98 and 105% (test it by printing only one stem first, to check for fit to the base and the flowers).