TailoredLayersthe tilting drawer →

We counted all 3,932 of our screws, nuts and washers, then sized a drawer to each thread size.

screwnutflat washerlock washerheat-set insert

Seven kits, counted from their box labels. M3 alone is 1,530 pieces and weighs a kilo, so it gets four drawers; ¼″ inserts get a sliver of one. That is what “made to fit” means here: the thing you own sets the size, not a catalogue. See the drawer it produced.

Black 3D-printed drawer pulled out of its housing on a honeycomb wall, with a bag of screws inside
The M3 drawer, 25 Sep. Outer 61.1 × 35.2 × 42 mm. This photo is cropped to that ratio.

A drawer that pulls out and tips 25°

One print, no supports, no assembly. The runner, hinge and stop all print in place with a 0.3 mm gap, so it comes off the bed already working.

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logged prints to get one drawer right. Two of them came off the bed fused shut.

  1. 24 Sep · drop-in plug stop: rejected, “near impossible to put in correctly”
  2. 24 Sep · runner coupon, gaps 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.4 mm: 0.3 wins, runners fall out
  3. 24 Sep · tilt coupon, 25° stop: “functions perfectly”
  4. 25 Sep · first full drawer, M3: holds loaded, shuts flush, tips
  5. 26 Sep · five bridge towers to print the back without supports
  6. 26 Sep · M2 drawer: fused shut, the front snapped off
  7. 26 Sep · M2 again: stuck, a bug in our own G-code script
  8. 27 Sep · M2, third try: “near perfect”