June 4, 2023
Description
I have a bunch of small hard drives - Western Digital My Passport, Seagate Backup Slim Plus, etc. They're not easy to stack, and printing enclosures for them takes too darn long. So I made some small clips that I intended to glue together. Then I thought, I should make them stackable, so I did, with rectangles. Then I thought, I should do them with hexagons… and then down the rabbit hole I went making circle and square versions too. There are versions for the top and/or bottom of stack, with no posts or holes.
The spring in the middle of the clips will move to fit the shape of the object you want to stack.
These spaces in the clips are designed for but not limited to:
*WD - 13.4mm
*Seagate - 12mm
*Samsung T7 SSD - 7.6mm (regular version and short version).
Printed in PrusaSlicer Draft mode (.24), 5 walls, 0% infill, four clips take about an hour on an Ender 3 S1.
And of course you don't have to use them on hard drives! If you find another use for them, be sure to post a Make!
If the pins don't fit tightly, just use a drop of glue. It will be hard to know in advance because printer tolerances are all different.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — Share Alike
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