Adhesive Tape Dispenser cnc/laser

thingiverse

This ultra heavy adhesive tape dispenser gets its weight from a 1kg lead block inside the corpus. I got the lead from eBay as diving accessory. The body is made from 8 layers of plywood. I used a desktop cnc-machine by Stepcraft and 6 mm birch plywood. The tape is hold by a aluminum tube which I cut to the correct length. It'd be a nice look if the tube is replaced be a complete aluminum or maybe a brass rod. I got the knife from Opitec which is a German crafts store. It was inserted into a thin slot that was sawn by a small hacksaw after gluing the inner parts together. To ensure the tape dispenser doesn't slip I experimented with funky foam and settled with a thin mousepad which I cut to size and fixed with double sided adhesive tape. Visit https://www.zenziwerken.de/en/ for more interesting designs How I Designed This I used Solid Edge 2D drafting to design the side-view. Then I separated the parts and nested it as close as possible to save material. When placing the parts I took the direction of the grain into account, so that the parts side by side had alternating 'colors'