Cell Phone Holder - Charger stand

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Cell Phone Charging Stand My wife suggested I create this and then sketched out a rough idea of what it should look like. I always jump on these projects as I remember the “What do we need a 3D printer for?” comments. Well, I designed this to be exactly like her picture. I wanted to make it so it could be easily expanded for more shelves. While that's still possible, I never needed to add the extra base. I was going to use dove-tail joints but then saw another holder joint that I liked better. I incorporated it into my design because I wanted to have removable shelves (breakage, color change – whatever) Print Settings Printer: Monoprice Select Mini v2 Rafts: No Supports: No Infill: 30% Notes: Print on their sides. Depending on your printing it may need some type of support to keep it from falling. I didn't need it on my printer. Post-Printing I got everything printed out. The first two shelves were a bit tight, but they still slid in. I’m just not sure they would come out. I edited the shelf and made the connector a little smaller so it would fit better. The last shelf fit perfectly! I presented it to my wife who then said she wasn’t sure of the ‘color’. As you all know, it isn’t a quick job printing out parts on something this big. So, what could I do?...... At first I tried to spray paint it in white – oh, what a mistake! It looked horrible, maybe I was going to have to reprint it. I have admired some of the prints that others get, and one person revealed his secret, XTC-3D. A brush-on coating for 3D printed parts. I ordered some on Amazon (24 oz. for around $20 US). I did not take all the steps ‘required’ in prepping for a good coating. I did it the fast and ‘anything is better that what it looks like now’ attitude. A quick coating, not covering everything – just what was going to show. Well it turned out better than expected. I then spray painted white. It looks good. It smoothed all the bumps, even made the shelves impossible to remove now as it filled in most of the open spaces between parts. The one shelf I waited to install, as it has a screw hole for mounting, had to have the interconnecting points cleaned with a file and Xacto knife. In the end, we didn’t use the screw mounting. We just got some double-sided tape that is meant for picture frames (14-pound load rated) and stuck it to the kitchen wall to keep our phones from getting wet by the sink.