Ring Doorbell Pro, 1/4 inch spacer backplate
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My Ring Pro (hardwired) doorbell started working intermittently and then stopped altogether. It was installed as a retrofit to replace an existing doorbell using existing wiring from 1987 in a brick veneer home. The cause of the latest problem was a broken wire. I could not pull the wire out any further so I had to splice in a short piece of wire using a snap lock telephone wire connector. The problem was fitting all this stuff behind the doorbell and into the hole in the mortar and brick without trying to chisel or drill it out and risk cracking a brick at the front door. I needed more space behind the doorbell!u My solution, search Thingiverse for someone else's solution. There are many from sun shades to angled mounts and mounts for ship lap siding among others. I just needed more space so I took dstasiak's excellent design and modified it to make it 1/4 inch thick. Screw mounting hole spacing has been adjusted to work with my Ring Pro at 105mm. Since I was changing the thickness, I made some other changes: - The opening for the wires is enlarged to allow for more variability of hole penetration into the house relative to your mounting holes. - Rounded outside corners, just a styling thing on my part. - Made the ribs thicker to 1.2 mm to work with a 0.4 mm extruder. - Rounded 90 degree intersections on the back side just for fun. - Added drain holes on the bottom edge in case rain or condensation gets behind the spacer. - Added UP ARROWS on the back side to indicate mounting orientation - Changed the shape of the screw hold openings from oval to racetrack. I printed one and it is working great, see the real photos. If you need it to be thicker, you can modify the STP file or more simply just scale the STL in the front to back dimension.
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