SFP / GBIC Organizer

I've got a ton of old SFPs laying around in a cardboard box at the office so I wanted a way to organize them a bit. Found a few things like this out there but none were what I wanted - light on filament yet still sturdy and not uh… ugly.

So I drew up a basic little platform that holds 25 modules. Put a little pretty on it and thinned it out to not be too heavy. They don't really stack but when empty they kinda stack a little. This was an unintended little bonus, I suppose. I used up the dregs of some old really old PETGs (the green and blue) to print a few out and aside from the expected degraded material issues they printed fine. These are freebies for the office, they're not getting all my good stuff 😂

My current generation GLC-TEs slot in perfectly fine. Old generation GLC-Ts fit but you don't want to ram them down hard as there's a little protrusion on the underside that might be damaged. Various MM/SM GLCs all fit without any concern, actually snapping in nicely with the little spring steel bumpers acting as retainers for them.

When I went to test this on the A1 Mini I used some better PETG and also added a second plate that adds a manual pause for a material swap to do the last 1mm of the print in TPU (I used some eSun 83A, the softer the better). Bambu's 90A would do great here, but it was way up on the shelf and the eSun was right there, so I just used that. This came out beautiful and is my suggested version to print.

If you want to use TPU for AMS you could remove the pause and let an AMS handle it, but 68D is really hard. Either way it helps not make scraping sounds on the desk and to stay in place. If you're using PLA, please use Plate 1 since TPU does not bond to PLA. Regardless, any filament that's moist or printed beyond it's proper MVS will exhibit some defects. Please make your material choices carefully and print with dry filament!