Sock Locks (Washer + Dryer sock clips)

Ever washed and dried socks only to find your  “pair” was now a lonely “single”? Then you need this print!

When you put your socks in the laundry, just clip the heal of the two socks together and wash it and dry it. When your laundry is done, all your socks are paired up and ready to go - no more missing single socks!

Important: Strongly recommended to use Polycarbonate ("PC") for this model. Enclosed printers like the Bambu Lab X1C can easily handle this filament.

Don't bother with PLA. PLA is not temp resistant to handle hot wash and dryer cycles and will soften and deform quickly.

PETG will handle the heat…but it doesn't seem to have enough resistance to fatigue. That means that a PETG clip might look like it worked great the first or maybe second wash/dry cycle. But after just a few more cycles, the combination of the heat and opening/closing of the clips will start to degrade the clip and it will start to stay in the open position and won't hold your socks together.

I really wanted to make it work with PETG but the longevity just wasn't there. I tried several different PETGs but none of them produced clips that would function after more than a few cycles. Maybe if you only do cold washes and low dryer heat settings you could get away with PETG. Your results may vary, but I personally haven't seen PETG work well enough in my own tests to endorse it.

I had not used PC before this and bought some just for this model after I learned that it is most  resistant to fatigue as well as heat. 

The good news is that PC seems quite easy to print. No harder than using PETG except for neeeding an enclosed printer. Dry the PC and it prints pretty easily.