Feet for kitchen scales
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Replacement feet for a Salter kitchen scale. The original feet had disintegrated so it was a bit unclear what they should look like - I took measurements of the dimensions which I could still observe! And then modelled up the replacements. It seems that the original feet had been screwed into place on the load cell sensors, but I couldn't see any easy way to model what needed to be connected to what since it had all fallen apart. So my replacement feet have no wings for screws and no way to screw into anything - they just rest up against the load cell sensors, and dangle out the holes in the bottom of the scales. So, they're free to jiggle, but that seems to be ok for this model of kitchen scales. When you put the scales down on a surface, the feet press up against the load cell. That's all you need. The bottom (the bit that touches your worktop) is flat, and I used a concentric layer for that. There's a recess on the top side, for a 16mm diameter 'metal coin' that was part of the original feet - it's just a hard aluminium disc, something for the load sensor to press into without damaging the plastic feet. If you are printing this to fix your kitchen scales, and you still have the original (but broken) feet, you can just break the old feet apart to get the aluminium disc off. To dismantle the kitchen scales, just run a spudger along the edge of the top metal plate, where it meets the plastic casing, and then use a pallet knife all around under the plate (there's a lot of glue and rubber there, but no wires etc, but be careful around the rubber buttons and lcd). Then there's sixteen screws under there to remove the main board - there's a few thin wires so be careful there too. But just pop the replacement feet into the holes and screw it back together.
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