You might be thinking... "A hook? Well that's hardly innovative given there's a hook out there for every single purpose you can imagine!..." Well, yes.. but this one is my fifth revision, and I've tested each variant extensively.... and honestly... I've been putting them up in a variety of places in my garage, my workshop, my workplace, and even my attic. So let me ask you this....

Do you, perhaps need a reasonably strong, non-damaging hook to hold your:

• Bicycle?
• Cables/ropes/chains/Christmas lights?
• Fishing rods/poles?
• Archery bows/bags/quivers?
• Sporting and other outdoorsy equipment?

Don't want to scratch your stored items on protruding bolts/nails/improvised "metal L-brackets masquerading as hooks?" Or worry about pointed ends of your hook(s) doing damage?

Are you an ordinary 3D printing mortal sans the Prusa XL/CR10/Voron printer behemoths... and only have a standard sized printer build plate (around 235mm x 235mm or so) but want the hook to be as big, strong and capable as possible?

Then have a look at this hook. :-)

This is designed so I can screw/bolt two hooks to my garage rafters and simply flip my bike upside-down and lift it onto the hooks. No annoying pulley-based "bicycle lifts", and their frustrating issues like:

• What do I do with all this extra rope when the bike is raised?
• Argh! The rope has slipped off the pulley and wedged between the wheel and brace near the axle.
• Ah the rats/mice have eaten the rope on my "bike lift" and now the bike has crashed down on top of my better-half's brand new-car... (literally less than a week old, with only 17Km (10Mi) or so on the clock.... and dented/scratched the roof while breaking the sun roof.... (yeah, that's when I made V.1)

NOTES FOR CNC ROUTER/MILL OWNERS: (3D PRINTER SECTION BELOW)

The hook itself, has a square profile with fillets at every corner. This might not seem very important... but if you happen to have some 15-20mm aluminium plate and a milling machine/CNC router with roundover bits, using the screw/bolt holes as positioning reference/work holding... flipping it over to do both sides is child's play.... if you want a strong metal hook that's unlikely to mar anything important.... if you want to go overboard, you could even dip the hook in that "plastic dip" stuff for an even lower chance of damage.

NOTES FOR 3D PRINTERS

The arrangement putting the hook "flat" on the build plate ensures the layers are aligned with the tensile forces the hook will experience. This has distinct strength benefits to this print. As do the following print settings....