ok i thought i was smart and creative when i designed my own Tea Box , i ended up with a ammunition style box that have no dividers in the middle and had a basic latch i think im gonna print this one !!!
The "Tea Time" shutter box was a pretty neat box. Then you snuck in that great mini-round carabiner at the end. Thank you for sharing your wonderful designs with us.
@@3DPrinty I am curious if you designed the whole part and then to split and add tabs and the brackets or did you designed half of it mirrored it and added the extrusion/cut for the tabs?
For this design I modeled half of it, mirrored it, then modeled the latching tabs. I knew the design was going to be mostly symmetrical, so that seemed like the easiest option to me.
@@3DPrinty I have a hard time committing to glue. ";^) 3d printing seems perfect to explore alternates like this. Although print tolerances can sure send things astray!
A quick idea for a future project if you need one, a door knob wall protector that has a latch to hold the door open. I uh....put a hole in my wall and need something to glue over it 😄 Love your designs, this is a great one to show the wife it's not just a toy factory!
That sounds like a great use for 3D printing - especially in TPU! The final shape of something like that would depend greatly on the size and style of your specific door handle. I'd encourage you to give designing what you need a try :) There's a good chance you can build what you need within Tinkercad, which is both free and a good starting point with 3D design.
I do use Tinkercad to modify STL's, though I'm not super good at it yet. Where I'm not sure on this design is how to make the hinge so that the latch doesn't stick out while it's not needed.
That was the Featured Printy for this video. It was printed by DaddyWazzy: www.printables.com/model/208096/comments/632459 Also check out their custom Sith-inspired bottom lid: www.printables.com/model/373664
When you first opened the box I thought it was holding condoms. (I don't drink tea) I guess it could be, and you could just customize the sign to say "D Time".
Sir, you have the best utilitarian prints. I printed your roll up organizers, including the giant ones. The quality of those prints is impressive - would you mind sharing which printer you are using to print these?
I'm glad you like them! My primary workhorses are a three Prusa MK3s printers. I also have a Sidewinder X-1 and a project R3D Daedalus. I use those for larger prints.
0:33 Does anyone else also get jumpscared every time he does that? Idk there's something super uncanny with the way he does it. My man's is a secret 3D printer cultist I swear *_S U S_* edit: Ok I want to make, but my Y axis belt broke so rip printing for at least a week :/ I absolutely love this design, never stop, you are a gem.
@@3DPrinty That's too funny, my neighbour's cat loves to play with some of my prints. I now understand where the term "scaredy cat" comes from lol, that dude jumps, like he J U M P S. Luckily I found a local shop that sells the belt, so once I find a crimper, I might be printing one of these boxes tonight! Can't wait!
I want to try to do the sign similar to this, but I would like the box to be with square edges and not with like this round part that the box in the video has, I don't know if I'm making sense but it's possible? Or do we need us to make the sliding part possible?
If the box is large enough that the door can slide sideways without bending (like the classic sliding doors in Scifi or a Japanese shoji door) it could fit in a square box. If you want the door to be proportionally large (like in this design) you either need a soft rounded corner for the shutter to slide in or you need to tack on a fake sharp corner to make the box look square even though it secretly has a bend on the inside. I hope that helps!
Definitely possible, but I don't have a multi-color printer (yet) so I needed to print the "Tea Time" sign flat... or use supports. And I really dislike supports. Good question!
@@3DPrinty I think you can insert a command to park the printer after the specified layer then resume printing when you click the button on the printer, so, you would be able to change filament in mid-print. 🙄 Alternatively you can colour the raised letters with a sharpie or something similar, just don't give up. 😉
I must have misunderstood your first question and that lead to more confusion. The decorative insert is already available in a staple shape for glue-free installation. You have the option of either a staple shape or a flat sign. However, the arms of the staple forces us to print it on its side - great for a clean print, but not good for a mid-print filament swap. If you don't mind printing supports (or if you have a printer that can produce perfectly flat long bridges), you could print the staple-shaped sign so that the front of the sign faces up. In this position you can do a filament swap - just like I did with the "Tea Time" print in the video. I hope that clears up the confusion.
While PETG would be ideal, PLA can work perfectly fine. For my prints, I used Duramic3D Marble PLA+, which is a nice tough PLA. I'd avoid silk or matte PLAs, as they are often extra brittle.
As always, your designs are so elegant. True Artist. Thank you for sharing your work so the rest of us can enjoy it.
Thanks, glad you like it!
Wanted to say this. Bravo 3D Printy!
This looks better than most mass produced tea bag holders I've seen. I love the evolution of the shutter design to larger projects. Very nice design!
Thank you! I think the pencil case is my favorite, but they all have different uses.
these staples are such an awesome idea
Thanks! I honestly just wanted to try out a different assembly technique for each shutter box design.
@@3DPrinty I’ve gummed up a couple of your other designs with poor glue technique. so anytime I can avoid it, I do
Oh, this would make an awesome Filament sample holder!
Great idea! I hope that this design will get a few remixes that repurpose it.
Definitely going to use this as a basis for a pill organizer! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! I'd love to see the end result if you choose to post it :)
Awesome box!
Thank you :)
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i thought i was smart and creative when i designed my own Tea Box , i ended up with a ammunition style box that have no dividers in the middle and had a basic latch
i think im gonna print this one !!!
Thanks so much. I just happened to be working on something anyway that worked with the theme!
Wow I didn't know we could do this with a 3D printer, incredible!
The "Tea Time" shutter box was a pretty neat box. Then you snuck in that great mini-round carabiner at the end. Thank you for sharing your wonderful designs with us.
Glad you like it! This video was rather short, so I figured it could use a bonus model :)
Really well designed. Desiging multi parts objects is no easy feat. Well done!
Thanks so much, these shutter designs have been a lot of fun to create!
@@3DPrinty I am curious if you designed the whole part and then to split and add tabs and the brackets or did you designed half of it mirrored it and added the extrusion/cut for the tabs?
For this design I modeled half of it, mirrored it, then modeled the latching tabs. I knew the design was going to be mostly symmetrical, so that seemed like the easiest option to me.
@@3DPrinty Thank you it's always nice to get insight in how other people approach a design (:
Love the staples idea!
Thanks! I felt compelled to create a different assembly solution for each design.
@@3DPrinty I have a hard time committing to glue. ";^)
3d printing seems perfect to explore alternates like this. Although print tolerances can sure send things astray!
I haven’t commented in a while, but I still watch your videos and love your designs. Keep up the awesome work!!
Thanks so much - will do :)
Congrats in advance for winning the printables contest! Don't see this not making it to the top 3!
Thank you. There are some great designs already posted, though, so we'll see!
I am consistently impressed by your designs. Thanks for sharing your creations!
Thanks! I'm glad the designs are keeping peoples' printers busy :)
A quick idea for a future project if you need one, a door knob wall protector that has a latch to hold the door open. I uh....put a hole in my wall and need something to glue over it 😄
Love your designs, this is a great one to show the wife it's not just a toy factory!
That sounds like a great use for 3D printing - especially in TPU!
The final shape of something like that would depend greatly on the size and style of your specific door handle. I'd encourage you to give designing what you need a try :) There's a good chance you can build what you need within Tinkercad, which is both free and a good starting point with 3D design.
I do use Tinkercad to modify STL's, though I'm not super good at it yet. Where I'm not sure on this design is how to make the hinge so that the latch doesn't stick out while it's not needed.
You continue to pump out the good stuff! These will work perfectly to store sim cards for my store! EPIC!
That's awesome! If you go forward with that plan, I'd love to see how it turns out :)
Do you mean your new box is for 3-1/2" floppy diskettes? [;^)>
It [edit] will work well for tea bag storage, too. Very nice design.
With the right scaling, it certainly could be :)
This has to happen!
Чертовски здорово придумано! Мое почтение вашей фантазии!
Спасибо!
Wait wait wait, what was all that Empire and Tie Fighter stuff at the end???
That was the Featured Printy for this video. It was printed by DaddyWazzy: www.printables.com/model/208096/comments/632459
Also check out their custom Sith-inspired bottom lid:
www.printables.com/model/373664
When you first opened the box I thought it was holding condoms. (I don't drink tea)
I guess it could be, and you could just customize the sign to say "D Time".
The nice thing about storage designs is they can be used to hold whatever.
Sir, you have the best utilitarian prints. I printed your roll up organizers, including the giant ones. The quality of those prints is impressive - would you mind sharing which printer you are using to print these?
I'm glad you like them!
My primary workhorses are a three Prusa MK3s printers. I also have a Sidewinder X-1 and a project R3D Daedalus. I use those for larger prints.
Does this channels intro remind anyone else of My Life as a teenage robot? it sounds like what would play on a title card
I've heard comparisons to the RUclips short "Look Around You", but this is the first time I've heard of this matchup :)
Better idea make a filament sample that fits in there 🤔 with bunch of different test on the sample
Neat idea! My OpenSCAD filament swatches could easily be sized within OpenSCAD to fit this box (and they come with a few mini print tests)
Already hyped!
🎊
0:33 Does anyone else also get jumpscared every time he does that? Idk there's something super uncanny with the way he does it. My man's is a secret 3D printer cultist I swear
*_S U S_*
edit:
Ok I want to make, but my Y axis belt broke so rip printing for at least a week :/
I absolutely love this design, never stop, you are a gem.
You aren't the only one - I always have to make sure the cat is in another room for those shots.
I hope you're printer is back up and running soon!
@@3DPrinty That's too funny, my neighbour's cat loves to play with some of my prints. I now understand where the term "scaredy cat" comes from lol, that dude jumps, like he J U M P S.
Luckily I found a local shop that sells the belt, so once I find a crimper, I might be printing one of these boxes tonight! Can't wait!
I gotta aak....is the music the same from "how it's made"? It sounds soooo similar!
It's an original melody made for the channel, but the instrumentation does sound really familiar :)
I want to try to do the sign similar to this, but I would like the box to be with square edges and not with like this round part that the box in the video has, I don't know if I'm making sense but it's possible? Or do we need us to make the sliding part possible?
If the box is large enough that the door can slide sideways without bending (like the classic sliding doors in Scifi or a Japanese shoji door) it could fit in a square box. If you want the door to be proportionally large (like in this design) you either need a soft rounded corner for the shutter to slide in or you need to tack on a fake sharp corner to make the box look square even though it secretly has a bend on the inside.
I hope that helps!
My make this week on Zee and Zed!!
Awesome! I can't wait to see it :)
Why you not combining the "flat decorative insert" with the "staple" shape?
Then the "decorative insert" would've require absolutely no glue. 😉
Definitely possible, but I don't have a multi-color printer (yet) so I needed to print the "Tea Time" sign flat... or use supports. And I really dislike supports. Good question!
@@3DPrinty I think you can insert a command to park the printer after the specified layer then resume printing when you click the button on the printer, so, you would be able to change filament in mid-print. 🙄 Alternatively you can colour the raised letters with a sharpie or something similar, just don't give up. 😉
I must have misunderstood your first question and that lead to more confusion.
The decorative insert is already available in a staple shape for glue-free installation. You have the option of either a staple shape or a flat sign.
However, the arms of the staple forces us to print it on its side - great for a clean print, but not good for a mid-print filament swap.
If you don't mind printing supports (or if you have a printer that can produce perfectly flat long bridges), you could print the staple-shaped sign so that the front of the sign faces up. In this position you can do a filament swap - just like I did with the "Tea Time" print in the video. I hope that clears up the confusion.
@@3DPrinty That's okay then.
Which filliment should be used for the shutter
While PETG would be ideal, PLA can work perfectly fine. For my prints, I used Duramic3D Marble PLA+, which is a nice tough PLA.
I'd avoid silk or matte PLAs, as they are often extra brittle.
Will the shutter work with just PLA?
Yes, but I'd avoid PLA blends that are extra brittle. Silk and matte PLAs are not a great match.