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Sump Pump Clamp

Rob — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:49:51 +0000

Sump Pump Clamp Rob Thu, 02/22/2018

We had a lot of rain in a few days so my sump pump was busy doing it's job until the clamp that holds the float in place broke. Needless to say, the pump was off for a few hours and flooded my basement. I didn't have time to go to town and buy anything to fix it. I went through a few quick and dirty prototypes using an old piece of pvc, some styrofoam, and zip ties holding it in place. This was ugly and only worked part of the time. The switch end stops would catch on the inside of the tube when water hit the float just right. So obviously this wouldn't do. The pump needs to work all the time. So I drew up a quick sketch of what I thought I wanted to do. It didn't need to be pretty just had to work. I went into this phase knowing this was just a prototype until I had time to finish cleaning up my basement and tweak it. Here is what I ended up with. I will be redoing this eventually. So for now it's on the bottom of my very long todo list :)

Value

$10.00

Number made

Total Saved

$10.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

My Sump Pump Float guide Design

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Shower head

Rob — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:38:03 +0000

Shower head Rob Tue, 02/20/2018

This was a fun print. I can't wait to try it out. Our guest bathroom's shower head is pretty bad, so I printed this one and will install it soon.

Value

$10.00

Number made

Total Saved

$10.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Shower Head

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Gum Holder

Rob — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:54:28 +0000

Gum Holder Rob Mon, 01/29/2018

I am tired of throwing gum packs away after they get crumpled and destroyed in my pocket(example pictures below). So I created a simple box using an openscad design by clifcox you can check out my stl files here My final version of the gum holder, holds 3 sticks which is plenty for my needs. I no longer have to destroy gum packs before finishing them. This will also save some money by not going having to throw away so much good gum.

Value

$1.00

Number made

Total Saved

$3.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

My Gum Holder Design

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WebCam Cover

Rob — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:51:00 +0000

WebCam Cover Rob Thu, 01/25/2018

This is a webcam cover designed by MIGUIF. This was a simple print and solved the problem of covering my webcam without looking like junk with a piece of tape. It is also nice because you can just slide it out of the way and use the webcam when needed.

Value

$3.00

Number made

Total Saved

$3.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Webcam cover by MIGUIF

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Shower Phone Holder

Rob — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:35:33 +0000

Shower Phone Holder Rob Thu, 01/25/2018

This is a Phone Holder for the shower so my wife can listen to her music or audiobook while taking a shower. This is a very basic design thrown together by me in about 30 minutes in Fusion 360

Value

$12.00

Number made

Total Saved

$24.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

My Shower Phone Holder Design

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Soap Holder

Rob — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:41:58 +0000

Soap Holder Rob Thu, 01/25/2018

I printed a cool soap holder. My bar of soap was always getting gross on the bottom with the soap holder we had. This was a very cool soap holder designed by by piuLAB . There are a lot of options for soap holders online ranging from $5 - $15. I like this one more than the ones I saw online so I'm valuing it at the higher range.

Value

$15.00

Number made

Total Saved

$15.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Soap holder by piuLAB

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Spaghetti Scale

Rob — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:31:26 +0000

Spaghetti Scale Rob Mon, 01/22/2018

My wife always likes to make way to much spaghetti so I figured I'd try to make a tool for this to help her figure out the right amount. This print was well worth the effort. We know have proper proportions of Spaghetti.

Simple print, I made a slight change to the file in tinkercad, just to make it a little more customized for my Wife.

Value

$6.00

Number made

Total Saved

$6.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Spagetti Scale by zBis

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Bottle funnel adapter

Rob — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:40:07 +0000

Bottle funnel adapter Rob Wed, 01/03/2018

This is pretty nice for when you are transferring the remaining liquid from one bottle to another. Very cool design by Makulator. The cool thing about this is you can save a lot of money by transferring the last of the soap or whatever it is that you are transferring so this print is well worth trying out.

Value

$2.00

Number made

Total Saved

$2.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Funneled Bottle Adapter by Makulator

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Google Home Mini Holder

Rob — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:57:35 +0000

Google Home Mini Holder Rob Tue, 12/12/2017

I got a free Google Home Mini when I bought my Pixel 2 from Google. This is one of my favorite functional prints. I have sense got 2 more Google Home Mini devices to place throughout my house. So I will definitely be printing more of these holders.

Value

$10.00

Number made

Total Saved

$10.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Google Home Mini Hanger (mount, case, dock, cover) by Mormegil83

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Phone holders

Rob — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:53:40 +0000

Phone holders Rob Tue, 12/12/2017

Phone holders are really nice when you are watching something and you are busy with your hands. For example doing the dishes. I use my phone holder every night while I clean and load dishes.

They also make great gifts. I looked up phone stands and the cost of similar stands were around $6

$6 doesn't really seem like much money but when everyone in your family wants one it adds up.

Value

$6.00

Number made

Total Saved

$30.00

Type of saving

Useful

Model Location

Phone holder Phone stand by byctrldesign

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