Bag Filler Quart size

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This stand keeps a quart bag open as you fill it up. Fold the top of the bag over about an inch to hold it in place there. This thing works really well, and it's a real time-saver when you need to bag lots of meal-sized portions, especially liquids like soup. I use it here on a large pot of chicken cacciatore. Another photo shows it holding a quart of plain water. These standard size (Walmart) quart bags actually hold about 5 cups. The stand is pretty thick and bulky, but it's stable and strong. I couldn't figure out how to make it fold up for storage, but it disassembles easily and the five parts fit in a quart bag. My attempts to design one that would hold both quart and gallon bags weren't successful. I may get the urge to do one for gallon bags, but I don't use many of them and doubt it's worth the hassle. This one might simply be scaled up to gallon size, but I haven't tried that yet. I often use the "Sous Vide" cooking method and discovered that instead of expensive vacuum bagging, plain gallon zipper bags can usually be used. So I made the gallon version of this bag filler. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1960297. The "top" took about 56 minutes, 28 grams, and a single "foot" needed about 28 minutes, 14 grams ABS. I remember needing two prints to get all the parts printed on a five by five Afinia build plate. The printed legs may be a very tight fit. Use some sandpaper on both ends of the legs to get a smooth sliding fit. It's just a print, and something will break if it's stressed too much. There's no need for things to be super tight. Gravity holds it together.