Storage display/sorting stand for "everything 1 meter"

prusaprinters

As a model maker you need a lot of bar stocks that's supplied as one meter cuts - carbon tubes and profiles, wooden strips, aluminium and steel poles, tubes, wires…Storing this stuff is quite a challenge. I myself used to keep such stuff in the cardboard boxes in which it was supplied which was quite a pain - whenever I needed a specific profile or wire, I had to spend some time searching through a number of boxes, and in many cases I even had to measure what I found to be sure that I had the right part. Plus, I hardly ever had an overview which profiles I had in stock and which were used up.Well, this storage display is the device that put an end to all that waste of time and space. It keeps all of my “one meter stuff” items (and cuts of those) vertically in well-arranged order and easily accessible with a footprint of no more than 30 x 30 cm, consisting of just five printed parts and a 90 cm cut of 4020 aluminium profile.Building instructionsI recommend to print one foot, one top frame, one floor frame, and two middle frames. Thus you can store material cuts down to about 20 cm length. If you don't want to store cuts shorter than 40 cm, you don't need the second middle frame.Following my recommendation, you need the following:About 360 g of filament (PLA, PETG, ABS, whatever)A cut of 4020 aluminium profile, 88 to 94 cm long, 6 mm slot width6 screws, M5 x 10 mm, countersunk head6 T-nuts, M5, slot 6Optional: An 8 mm steel pole, 30 cm long (as a ballast and foot broadening for more stability under load)Print all the parts (type of filament is uncritical) using 100% of infill. For the top frame you may need a little support (but most likely you will not - if you're not sure, make a test print first).Push the 4020 profile into the foot and fix it using two screws and T-nuts (one from the front, one from the back.Next, screw the floor frame to the end of the 4020 profile that protrudes from the foot using one screw and T-nut (from the front).Now put the top frame's cap onto the other end of the 4020 profile and fix it with another screw and T-Nut.Finally, screw the middle frame(s) to the profile from the front. I recommend to attach one about 40 cm and one about 18 cm above floor level.If you want (recommended especially for heavy load), attach the ballast pole by simply sliding it through the two ducts in the foot's “toes”.Well, that's all. From now on you will never have to search for that 2 mm spring steel wire or wonder if you still have 6 mm carbon tubes in stock…