February 3, 2025
Description
The locking handle for our clothes dryer broke last week so we went out and bought a new one, not expensive as its a no name brand from a supermarket. Rather than throw away the old one I scanned the part minus the broken piece and reverse engineered the scanned part to extract the main function without all the unnecessary design fluff. Printed it out in PETG that I had loaded in the printer, and we now have two functional clothes dryers. Thought I'd upload the model in case anyone else has a similar problem.
The pins holding the locking handles on look like they're riveted, but in reality the larger end is just pushed on and grips with sprung steel teeth. You can pull them off using a pair of pliers and they can be reused to hold the replacement part on. If you damage them taking, off a locking nut and bolt should do the same job.
Feel free to do what you like with the model, just point them at my profile here if you do.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution