Wood Utensil Organizer Shim
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Let'S Keep This Simple (Pro Tip From The Future - I Can Never Keep Things Simple): I Have A Utensil Drawer Organizer - Two Of Them, Actually. They'Re Made Of Wood, And They Fit Perfectly In My Two Kitchen Drawers When Fully Expanded. You Can See That They Are Well-Loved. Also, This Style Of Drawer Organizer Is Fairly Popular. I'M Posting This Thing, In The Hope That Folks With A Similar Need, Can Use My Fabulous Design. I Say Fabulous, Because Whenever I Add Fillets, And Curves, And Tapered Extrusion, I Feel Like Jony Ive - Without The Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars. But Yes, Design Is Good. Good Design Is Fun. So What Need Does This Fill? Well, That'S Easy: The Stupid Organizer Kept Contracting In The Drawer, So It Didn'T Look Perfect. I Needed To Put Something In There To Keep It Open. At First I Thought "Dowel!" But I'M Crap With Saws And Wood. Then I Thought "3D Printer!" So I Grabbed My Digital Calipers And Measured The Inside Of The Expanding/Contracting Side At 84Mm In One Drawer And 82Mm In The Other. I Wanted Something Dowel-Like, So I Grabbed A Pen. A Standard Bic Pen Was Too Thin, Diameter Wise, So I Chose The Cap-End, Which Was About 10Mm. Perfect! At First, I Thought I Was Going To Put These Shims Into The Bottom, Front And Back. And That Would Have Worked (If It Weren'T For You Meddling Kids!), But Then I Realized That The Shims Fit Perfectly Into The Grooves In The Front And Back. Because Of The Slight Taper, And The 3D Printing Layer Lines, These Just Snap Into Place And Have The Perfect Amount Of Resistance/Friction To Stay Put. If You Like This Shim, And Want To Have It Made Up In A Different Size, Just Let Me Know. There'S The "Height" (Currently 10Mm), The "Width" (10Mm), And The "Length" (82Mm And 84Mm). These Dimensions Should Be Fairly Obvious. Leave A Comment, Let Me Know What You'D Like, And I'Ll Work One Up For You. If You Can Think Of A Way That I Can Improve This Shim, Please Let Me Know!
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