How to Make a Desk Tidy

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How to Make a Desk Tidy

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This desk tidy has three cups of different sizes which all can hold different pieces of stationairy equipent. there are four peices in this design. This include the 3D printed base and three different sized polypropelene pieces. the following instructible qill guide you through the process of making this desk tidy.

Upload the STL File to the Printer

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Print the Base

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This process takes around 8 hours

Clean Up Base

After printing, there may be strands of excess material. use sandpaper to sand down and get rid of excess material.

use a knife or a thin object to get any small pieces of plastic our of any of the small slits

Measure Out the Poly Propylene Lengths

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The 3 pieces of polypropylene all have different lengths due to their respective sizes.

the sizes for the pieces are:

  1. 130mm x 70mm
  2. 195mm x 90mm
  3. 225mm x 110mm

For cutting it out you can either use a Stanley knife or scissors. they both work equally as well

Slide the Pieces Into the Slots

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Place each piece of polypropylene in the slot with the corresponding size. make sure to be careful as the shafts sticking up will break with relative ease.

Fix Up Any Rough Edges

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Fix up any mismatches in the polypropylene or and bad pieces of plastic.