Sliding Drawer Insert Project

So, my wife was saying that we have accumulated too much stuff in our kitchen drawers and we needed some way to mitigate all the crap we have stored there, so I got to work on making a sliding inset drawer that sits on top and in the upper gap of the cutlery drawer. the green outline shape in this image represents the inner dimensions of the drawer itself and the clearance to the 'ceiling' of the countertop.

this is the first half or "male" side of the sliding drawer. notice that the tabs are not the same size. the shorter one is the rearward side that sits on the back end of the drawer.

here is a closeup of the join, note that for printing I curved the corners to strengthen the join which also speeds up the printing process. Notice that the jointab is tapered, this ensures that the halves leave the least possible seam when joined and it locks into place more securely. note also that the angle is also outwards, so the angle is along at least two planes.

this is what the two halves look like joined. The tolerance gap here is 0.2mm. I could have made it much less, but I didn't want to waste a print, so I went the safe route. I have a 3d pen, so I figured if needed, I could weld the gaps shut using the same filament and then sand them down.

here is the finished tray. "It's just that easy!" Actually took about 8 hours to print each half, then I glued them together and welded the seam in the middle of the tray and then spent several hours sanding.

So, my wife also wanted better cutlery trays. The one we had before only had 4 slots, so I made these so that we had six and they spanned the entire interior of the drawer. I designed it so that it has clearance with the sliding drawer.

and here's what they look like installed. I ran out of white filament just past the mid mark on the second tray and had to switch to another filament. I wanted to use a filament that would be easy to paint over and this was the 'palest' that I had. when I showed my wife, she said that she liked it like that and doesn't want it painted afterall.

It has the added benefit of glowing in the dark. :D