Steven's Logbook

Quick part I made the other day: I keep my clothes in a filing cabinet, and I ordered some of these filing cabinet dividers the other day to divide some of the drawers into sections. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem where, as I shuffled around the contents of the drawers, the dividers would tip over since they weren’t actually mounted at the bottom.

Can’t have pants mixing with shorts!

So, I whipped up a quick part to fixture the bottom of the divider to my cabinet.

I designed this clip to avoid any features that would catch on clothes. All the edges have large fillets, and the surfaces of the part are flush against the surfaces of the filing cabinet where it is inserted.

I used a 3D printer to print a couple. The divider interfaces with the part with a little bit of friction in the slot. A magnet (one of these) sits in the square cutout in the part and holds the part against the metal bottom of the drawer. The part sits in the channel in the bottom of the drawer.

Fresh out of the printer

The magnet surface is also flush against the surface of the clip.

As you can see, problem solved!

I printed a couple of these, one for each divider.