Elevating a spatula container
How I created a few more inches of space on my kitchen table
Before I get into some bigger projects again, I have another little tweak I printed a few months ago. I use lots of spatulas when cooking. I need a lot of them, so I have a container on the kitchen counter dedicated just for them.
I don't know how many mental illnesses I have, but I was annoyed that the container was not pushed against the wall and, thus, was stealing 2.5 centimetres of space from both sides.
I tried to solve this via 3D printing, as usual. I modelled an extension to move the container to both walls. The shape is strange; it is a circle with a one-centimetre-tall border, so the container does not move and holds firmly, but it has one sharp corner and a gradual cut on the right side to coincide nicely with the fillet on the table.
The strange empty space under the circle is there on purpose. If I'm doing something again, why not put a drawer in the empty space, right? But we'll get to that.
I printed the body in PETG using the same colour and print settings as in this article.
To the surprise of everyone involved, meaning me, the print came out on the first try, and everything worked—a small miracle.
Now the drawer. First, I modelled a drawer with a handle in one line with the body; I printed it out, and a few hours later, remade the handle into a hole because I thought that would be much better.
But it turned out that the old model wasn't that bad. The handle in one line works well, and I never printed the design with the hole.
By the way, I don't know how the professionals in Fusion 360 do it, but I've learned that when things are supposed to work together, modelling them in one Fusion 360 model and turning off their appearance through Bodies is the best way to go. I can create the shape of a drawer with a simple offset.
When it all came together, the result was nice.
I saved 2.5 centimetres on both sides. What nonsense, right? :) And in the end, I put hooks on bags from IKEA into the drawer.
I'll add the three electric sockets I have there. I've been using only the one on the left for five years now, so it doesn't bother me at all that the spatulas have covered them a bit.