Ikea Clothes Peg Clothespin Replacement Octopus

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<p>Update [2020-03-06]: minor improvements, chamfered some edges, slightly increased the diameter of the holes for the spring, since it was annoying/hard to insert the spring.</p> <p>The pegs on those Ikea Octopus hangers kept breaking, so I designed a direct replacement. After modeling it, I searched on Thingiverse and found a basically identical model, so I added this as a remix.</p> <p>Since the comments on the "original" thing claimed it breaks as much as the Ikea ones, unless it's made of nylon filament (which I don't have), I altered the design for a hinged type, so the plastic isn't constantly deformed back and forth.</p> <p>It's printed as one piece, flat on the bed, no supports. I printed the 0.2 clearance one on my prusa mk3 with no problem, but I included files for 0.35 and 0.5 clearance versions.<br/> Other settings I used: 0.3 layer height for print speed and 30% infill so the hinge has some structure.</p> <p>The holes for the metal wire are tight, but manageable, better tight than loose.</p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>Update [2020-03-06]: minor improvements, chamfered some edges, slightly increased the diameter of the holes for the spring, since it was annoying/hard to insert the spring.</p> <p>The pegs on those Ikea Octopus hangers kept breaking, so I designed a direct replacement. After modeling it, I searched on Thingiverse and found a basically identical model, so I added this as a remix.</p> <p>Since the comments on the "original" thing claimed it breaks as much as the Ikea ones, unless it's made of nylon filament (which I don't have), I altered the design for a hinged type, so the plastic isn't constantly deformed back and forth.</p> <p>It's printed as one piece, flat on the bed, no supports. I printed the 0.2 clearance one on my prusa mk3 with no problem, but I included files for 0.35 and 0.5 clearance versions.<br/> Other settings I used: 0.3 layer height for print speed and 30% infill so the hinge has some structure.</p> <p>The holes for the metal wire are tight, but manageable, better tight than loose.</p> <h3> Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Supports:</strong></p> <p>No</p> <p><p class="detail-setting resolution"><strong>Resolution: </strong> <div><p>0.3</p>&lt;/div&gt;<strong>Infill:</strong></div></p> <p>30</p></p>