A one piece clothes pin that should be fairly easy to print out wall thickness set at 1.2mm. I saw one of these made out of bent steel and thought the design would work well out of PLA, so I modeled up the red one ("one piece clip.stl") I thought it might have some teeth that grip a little better and ended up with the green one"one piece clip2.stl" and finally I thought enlarging the spring circle might help functionality so I came up with the yellow one "one piece clip3"
added some thicker versions that are 1.6mm thick walls look for the files with the 1_6 at the end, these have the thicker walls
upon further assessment I noticed the original metal clip has a reinforcement channel, I have added this to the design, any file with a "improved structure" in the file name should reflect this.
"clothes pin lofted3.stl" - MOST CURRENT
the last picture is a little misleading it is really only holding the hat because the loose filament acts like velcro
I found that keeping the sides attached produced a stronger spring
enjoy
| clothes_pin_lofted.STL | 839.8KB | |
| clothes_pin_lofted3.SLDPRT | 3.1MB | |
| one_piece_clip.SLDPRT | 239.5KB | |
| one_piece_clip2.SLDPRT | 275.0KB | |
| one_piece_clip2.STL | 379.2KB | |
| one_piece_clip2_1_6mm.STL | 379.6KB | |
| one_piece_clip2_1_6mm_structure_improved.SLDPRT | 355.5KB | |
| one_piece_clip2_1_6mm_structure_improved.STL | 469.4KB | |
| one_piece_clip2_improved_structure.SLDPRT | 404.5KB | |
| one_piece_clip2_improved_structure.STL | 539.1KB | |
| one_piece_clip3.SLDPRT | 306.0KB | |
| one_piece_clip3.STL | 466.3KB | |
| one_piece_clip3_1_6.STL | 400.5KB | |
| one_piece_clip3_1_6_improved_strength.SLDPRT | 691.0KB | |
| one_piece_clip3_1_6_improved_strength.STL | 3.1MB | |
| one_piece_clip3_structure_improved.SLDPRT | 717.0KB | |
| one_piece_clip3_structure_improved.STL | 3.2MB | |
| one_piece_clip_.STL | 326.8KB | |
| one_piece_clip_1_6mm.STL | 326.6KB | |
| one_piece_clip_1_6mm_structural_improvements.SLDPRT | 361.0KB | |
| one_piece_clip_1_6mm_structural_improvements.STL | 497.0KB | |
| one_piece_clip_improved_structure.SLDPRT | 377.5KB | |
| one_piece_clip_improved_structure.STL | 485.8KB |
