Philips Sonicare Station

General

I was looking for a nice and compact charging station for my Philips Sonicare toothbrush, when the station from 0x4C4A caught my eye. I really (!) like the idea, that the cable is completely hidden from sight and the carger can be unplugged to use the outlet otherwise. This way the charging station can also better serve as a charger for travel if you don't have a charging case, since everything is nicely fit into a convenient power brick.

The only change I wanted to make on 0x4C4A's model was to add slots for two brush heads, so everything that belongs together is together in a compact form factor. 

So I designed this charging station on the basis of 0x4C4A's model. It ended up looking like a little fat plane, but I like the look. It really is a big improvement over the old setup with the cable somehow tugged behind the mirror but slipping out every now and again.

Some notes on the model(s)

• The charger fits quite snuggly into the station. You really need to bend the cable coming out of the unit out of the way and presh it down into the station nice and firm. No worries, when you use the recommended printing parameters this should be no problem for the print. As 0x4C4A put it: “be ready to make the cable suffer a little during insertion”
• I also remixed the outlet-adapter from 0x4C4A's design, since my plug didn't fit into it at first. You can also take a look at the remix from Max Mustermann, who also had the same problem with the original plug adapter
• To improve bridging while printing the main body, I added a thin solid layer where the plug needs to be fed through during assembly. This reduces the amount of supports needed to print this by a lot (at least with my settings) or enables support-less printing, depending on your printer and parameters (I left support on since the Slicer (Prusa Slicer 2.6) advised it, but I don't think printing without supports would have been an issue with this model).
  When you choose this “less support” model you need to clear away the thin layer of material, where the plug is fed through. But printing with support would have meant you need to clear away the support, so I would wager that the post-processing effort stays the same.
  You can of course also choose the regular version of the model. With this however I would strongly advise to use supports on the build plate.
• During assembly, put the nuts into their holes first before trying to screw in the plug-adapter. This makes the assembly much easier.
• The bottom of the station snaps into place by pressing down on it. If the fit is too loose either use a bit of glue (since realistically you will probably not disasemble the unit again) or scale it a bit (a bit!) in slicer
• Using Prusa Slicer 2.6 or above you can also easily add letters at the corner of the little wings for the brush heads, when you share the brush with your significant other f.e.

Printing

I used the following settings for all 3 parts:

• Print the main body in standing orientation (upright, like it will be atfer it's finished), the bottom part with with the bottom on the build plate, and the plug-adapter on it's flat surface
• 3 perimeters, 20% cubic infill
• 0.12mm layer height for nice and smooth corners (but 0.2mm will also look very nice)
• 1mm top and 1mm bottom layer thickness
• Organic supports “on build plate only” for the main body

You will also need 

For assembly you will need two M3 nuts and at least (regarding the screw length) M3x12 hexagon socket screws to fix the plug adapter to the station. If you lack both, superglue will probably also work, but be carefull to align the screw holes on both the main unit and the plug adapter, or else the plug will probably not fit into the socket (or be off center :D).