Rifle safe - Mount extension - Ardel Safe Co. - Model 2 - 6 Rifle

Hey team,

Inside my non-lined safe I had an issue whereby rifle scopes would rub on the inner steel surface of the safe as the wooden mount provided was quite shallow. As a result, I had to leave rifles sitting at an angle resulting in less room being available and overall making the safe more difficult to use ongoing. 

The wood itself is also a fairly hard material and eventually would rub a mark into painted Cerakote finishes which I happen to have on my rifles. I tried putting some adhesive tape on the wood to alleviate the issue, however I was never really satisfied with this workaround. Chamfering the wood with a ~5 degree angle would probably alleviate this rubbing issue, and I have integrated a 5 degree draft into this model so the rifles lean into the safe to prevent them falling forwards and preventing a single point rubbing on the barrel surface.

Since I didn't want to knock out the original wood, to get around these issues I've put together a simple extension to be printed in soft TPU which can ‘clip on’ with a friction fit to the standard wood mount. This solved all the issues I was having and pretty pleased with how it turned out. In my case, the wood thickness was 19mm.

I've made two models, one which I used for my safe, which had existing cutouts of 38mm in diameter and 19mm wood, and another without a cutout. This will allow others to download the object and using Prusa Slicer, set the thickness of the ‘wood’ to suit your safe using the scale feature. Select the inner surfaces where the wood plank will be inserted and scale to whatever thickness you require.

For any Australians out there, this safe is Australian Made and excellent quality, the model is Ardel Model 2 - 6 Rifle 

Hopefully this is useful for somebody out there :-)