Mitten Drier

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This is a mitten/glove drier for those of us who live in colder climates. You need to build a wooden "box" to fit over your vent, and drill some 35mm (or 1-3/8") holes in it. The top of the box should be 18mm (3/4") thick although there are some spacers included if your top is a bit thinner. There's a template file included to help with the drilling, assuming the top panel of your box is around 150mm x 300mm (6x11.75"). I used a scrap piece of plywood for mine, and made the sides out of a spare pine board I had - I just made 45 degree miter cuts to make the corners of the pine box, and glued and clamped everything together. Print out your drier towers and vents, install them with the provided knobs. The knobs and driers have around 0.25mm clearance between the surfaces of the threads. Most of my knobs screwed into my driers just fine, but if you have a less accurate printer or if your printer has a "moment", you may have difficulty getting the knob all the way into the drier tower. If that's the case, print off a couple of the provided spacers and add them to the knob. Prints without supports. PLA is fine for this, but I would recommend that you give the towers a couple of coats of polyurethane. Since we're going to be putting wet things on them, we don't want a nice porous plastic surface for things to grow on.