Blind Tilt Lock for 2000-era 1" Blinds from Menards
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The tilt mechanism in our window blinds failed. Replacement tilt mechanisms for hexagonal or D-shaped rods are readily available, for $5 or less, through Amazon or eBay. However, our blinds use a rectangular rod (2.3 x 4.5 mm) and I could not find a replacement.These particular blinds are always kept tilted outwards and never need to be adjusted, only needing to hold their angle. Therefore, I decided to simply and quickly design a monolithic block to insert into blinds to hold the rod at a fixed angle, rather than allowing it to rotate. This took only a few minutes, and another 7 minutes to print, and this was a "good enough" substitute for the actual tilt mechanism.I have included both the .STL file and the Autodesk Inventor .IPT file.
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