IKEA Malm Drawer tension brace

IKEA Malm Drawer tension brace

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0.24mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
0.24mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill
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4 plates

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Needed to fix two sets of IKEA Malm drawers and wanted to learn about snapping parts together. A few iterations in and this is what holds the bottom of my Malm drawers in place. These drawers used to ship with a metal support spar between the drawer front and back which ‘held up’ the hardwood base but more importantly pulls the front and back boards together so the base can't ‘slip out’ from the grooves in those boards. But not all sets have come with them in recent years.

 

Printed in PLA (tried basic Bambu and Prusa) with tree support for the ‘sockets' and a brim for the ’spanner'. No need to be super clean on the support material removal, there's leeway in the socket and the locking together uses enough force to crunch some stray plastic. Requires some force to lock the parts together. You'll need two wood screws to fit it in place under the drawer, I used 15mm at the front and 25mm at the back. Only one back screw (of 8 I fitted) raised the outside skin even though they seemed too long, but angle your screws for most leeway.

 

Design was the best I could come up with in a few hours to bypass the bed size limitations of the p1s. Plates include a 1 full set, a 4 drawer collection of ‘sockets’, a single ‘spanner’, and a single pair of sockets.

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