Magnetic Child Lock – 10mm & 8mm Magnets 3D Printer Model

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Summary

I liked bookmakes' design, but did not have the magnets he mentioned in his make, so I decided to remix it a bit for 10mm x 2 and 8mm x 2 round neodym magnets.

EDIT 2024-11-01: I added a stronger lever because the my wife is stronger than the original version.
EDIT 2024-11-17: Added v2 magnetic holder and v3 lever which include a small hole that can be really helpful in case the magnets don't have the correct polarity and you have to extract them and flip them. Otherwise it's quite hard to get them out due to the tight tolerances.

Instructions at his post here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2647184

So far I only pushed the magnets in with a little force (without using solvents as he mentioned) and it works great so far. Will update in case it doesn't hold.
Note: If you can't push the magnets in or the model breaks just scale up the model by 1-3% and it should work.

For the key I used this other module which uses 19 x 2 mm magnets which I had at home: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6765633

base.stl 318.6KB
hook_1.stl 55.6KB
lever_10mm.stl 30.4KB
lever_10mm_v2.stl 27.1KB
lever_10mm_v3.stl 30.8KB
mag_holder_10mm.stl 19.2KB
mag_holder_10mm_v2.stl 23.4KB