Fluke 179 meter and probe holder (side mount)

thingiverse

To get the meter up and off the bench, I decided to attach it to the side of the roll-around tool cart. The Fluke 179 meter is pretty lightweight at ~500g (including basic probes), and the load on this Thingie is pretty much all in the vertical. This will likely fit other meters of that style. Note that this is NOT intended to forcefully retain the meter. It's intended for "lab" style conditions where the meter will remain largely undisturbed while hung. It is thus intended for easier removal of the meter, not secure retention of it. Capiche? This design was created for mounting onto the LEFT side of something, with the meter being to the left of whatever the bracket is mounted to. If you need the other way, just mirror it in the X-direction in the slicing software, and you should be good to go. I was just looking more closely at others' meter-holding designs here. Big mistake on many of them, that I **did** include on mine: put the probes next to each other, tips up. That way, if you need to confirm resistor, capacitor, etc. values for a bunch of them you can just hold the component against the probe tips to make the reading. Well, seems a benefit to me ;-). So far it seems plenty sturdy printed in natural-colored ABS at 0.5mm layer thickness (0.5mm nozzle), 3-thread perimeters with infill at 70% rectilinear. 2 layers top and bottom.