Fixing a washing machine door with a 3D printer

A fully functional washing machine with the fix installed - it doesn't even look bad! I'm kind of digging it.

A part of the door broke around the hinge and caused the whole thing to sag. A new door for the machine costs £140, so I decided to fix it myself for free.

This is the image I used to measure and match the curves in Fusion - taken directly overhead and with a known size object used to scale the 3D model.

This is the final design of the fix. I initially tried to be more fancy and added ribs and webs for support, before realising that they would not fit the machine because I forgot to bring one of the door parts with me before I started measuring...

Some of the prototype parts. The thin one at the top was just a very quick test piece to check if I got the hole positions correct before committing to a larger print. There is also a chopped of part of the broken original door rim that this is replacing.

Original door rim with cutting lines. I originally wanted to glue the white piece to the silver piece, hence the tabs on the sides, but after thinking about it for a bit (and being forced to remove the tabs because there was no room for them) I realised that it didn't really need to be connected to the OG part anyway.