Housekeeping- drawer pushbutton lock - OpenScad CSV

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Drawers on the bridge are fitted with nice looking pushbutton locks. Well, nice look is not equal to nice work. Some of them make a problem. And no supermarket around, more-in coronavirus time we are banned from going ashore. Is it a problem for 3D printer owners? Not really. We have among other designs my locker lock https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4837927 and here is design of complete pushbutton lock. You have 2 possibilities: glue draver guide on top of lock body or screw them together - better. That's why guide is longer and hole in the body smaller. Length of the guide also depends on Your drawer top thickness (2-2.5cm). Cut off not necessary length. How to complete - You will need 1 spring from ball pen and 10 wood screws. After cutting length, threading, drilling hole in Your drawer 1.Slide lock insert into body to half length, put spring in the lock insert guide(cylinder)- can be secured by paperclip, then slip it into body guide. Protect with rubber band. 2.Glue top and bottom on pusbuton pin. Slide drawer guide into hole in the drawer, slide pushbutton inside and screw lock body onto drawers guide. Screw body to drawer, screw lock top. If You have tongue frame over drawer that's it. If not You have to screw also frame. If You want to make thread before printing, adjust length, size here is code attached but You have to download latest Template Shapes_Text to use it. And make new module because shape -10 recall half sphere. it is made in not published yet version 5 of Template Shapes_Text https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4863092 (CSV code compression) Code of this design with compression to CSV consist of 59 lines. With standard OpenScad commands probably 3x more Template code will be included in next database release