Storage Rack Made With Pencils

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I picked up a few small plastic storage bins for a couple dollars, but I wanted to create a compact rack to hold them. So I built this thing using HB pencils (round 7mm body).\nThere are three parts, print six pieces of each. Remove the eraser ends (including metal) from fifteen pencils, and keep four pencils with their erasers intact (nineteen pencils in total).\nThe four pencils with erasers form the vertical supports.\nInsert the pencils through the printed components in an obvious manner, taking care to get them all aligned properly (that is, the pieces on the legs should be at the same height, the pieces in the middle need to be centered.\nAssemble it together without fasteners first so you can adjust the alignment. I have added holes for screws to each cross piece, simply drill into the pencil and insert a screw, I ended up only putting screws in the middle cross pieces, and it holds securely. There are smaller holes in the plastic components to accept a pin or nail, I only used one of these holes per leg-piece just to keep it from sliding down the leg, drilled out, and inserted a pin of the right length.\nIt's best to do your drilling on some paper as the graphite makes a mess.\nSimple, yet effective and a box of twenty pencils is only a couple bucks.\nYou could use it with the rubber as feet, or upside down with the rubber as tops, whatever fits your needs.\nHow I Designed This\nMade in Onshape, you can copy and edit here\nhttps://cad.onshape.com/documents/90498d500eb66facf0488915/w/be30f4646c0c9da72ccc5819/e/60d3dbb59219e9d1223df6c0