Door "Ninja Lock" Redesign
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I Had Kind Of A Weird Problem With No Obvious Solution. My Air Conditioning Is Somewhat Unbalanced Where One Bedroom Is Far Too Cold And The Adjoining Main Room Is A Significantly Higher Temperature. I Have Had To Keep The Door To This Room Closed As I Have Cats That Get In This Bedroom And Cause Problems And Make A Mess. So I Wanted To Somehow Prop The Door Open So Air Can Exchange But Keeps The Cats Out Until I Rework The Ducting Somehow To Fix This. Of Course The First Thing I Do Is Go To Thingiverse And Seek A Solution And In Short Time I Found The Ninja Lock! Https://Www.Thingiverse.Com/Thing:1032595. I Printed That Design And Found Some Issues I Didn'T Like With The Print Design/Structural Integrity And I Wanted It Longer. Also It Scratched Up My Door Frame Pretty Bad Quickly. So I Used The Ninja Lock As My Source Template And Designed Something Very Similar In Fusion360. I Beefed The Part Up Significantly, Added Fillets At All The Sharp Angle/Weak Spots, Made It Longer And Thicker, And Added A Button To Make It Easier To Push The Lock Open From Inside The Room Since We Are Leaving It On All The Time Right Now. Lastly I Added Some Felt To The Part That Holds The Door Jam To Prevent More Damage. How Awesome Is This Hobby?!!! A Year Ago I Would Have Never Thought I Could See A Design That Was Useful And Then Use 3D Modeling Software To Completely Remake It Exactly As I Want It And Produce Copies Of It Rapidly To Address An Immediate Need. The Original Designer Meant It To Be A Child Lock, I Would Not Trust It For That Personally Since I'M Pretty Sure My 4 Year Old Could Bust Through It But For My Needs, Cat Sequestration, It Works Perfectly (See Test Subject Alpha Picture, Aka Rambo). *Update* I'Ve Added A Second Redesign That Has An Over-Travel Stop To Protect The Part That Is Most Susceptible To Breakage And Beefed That Area Up A Little. My First Version Was Broken When Someone Pulled Very Hard. The First Version Works Fine If You'Re Careful, The Second Version Is Much Harder To Break.
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