12 mo. ago • 100%

Made a giant draining sponge/accessory holder for my kitchen sink.

I printed a small sponge holder a while back and have been using it about a year now. Ive been seeing these ads for silicone drainers lately and decided to make something similar. This is actually v2. The first one had a separate base and grates on top but I didn’t like how it turned out. This is a combined grate and base. Printed in 4 pieces and welded together.

Video: https://streamable.com/p1g18u

41 comments

What's the deal with The Blade that's on there? It looks like the underside of a lawn mower except with two extra blades.

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- LMAO, that's a glass rinser. You put your glass on it upside down and it shoots water up into the glass.
  
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  Oh! Neato!
  
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  The glass cleaner was the first thing I saw here. I love it!! And the sponge holder is pretty nifty too
  
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Cool!

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, but was always worried about the water. I was thinking of getting some epoxy resin and coating it.

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- Thanks. Epoxy definitely wouldn't hurt, but I don't find it necessary. The old one, printed in PLA, I used about a year with no issues.
  
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  That's good to hear!
  
  Might be the push I needed to give it a go :)
  
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Looks good! I’d recommend printing the base layer in line with how the water will drain out. As it is now, you have the ridges perpendicular which is going to retain more water

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- I guess it's hard to see but it's angled in between the slats. The top is horizontal, but the water falls right into the slats and drains out.
  
  Here's a video: https://streamable.com/p1g18u
  
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  I think he was talking about the grain of the print. The grain is perpendicular to the flow of water which would allow water to stay between the gaps.
  
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  brilliant!!
  
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This is all one piece

How big is your printer?

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- Lol, sorry. I meant it was one piece, i.e. not base and grate. I'll reword it. It's 4 printed pieces welded together.
  
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  Do you use heat welding or a solvent?
  
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- I think OP wasn’t clear. It’s at least 4 pieces if we’re going by seams. Probably meant that it’s a single unit now, as in it’s all connected together
  
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  Yeah exactly, sorry about that. I reworded the post.
  
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- Zooming into the image, by "all one piece," they mean the grates and bottom plate, as there are seams along the back wall at about one average bed width apart
  
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Impressive, even more the features your sink have 😉

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- Haha, yeah the thing on the left is a soap dispenser but I've never used it. And I added the glass rinser.
  
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  Is that spinny thing the glass rinser?
  
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This is pretty intense. Hope it works out long term. Curious how it goes keeping it clean after a few months.

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- If im not wrong OP said they have been using it for a year already
  
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  This one is new, but I had a small one that just held the sponges that I had been using for about a year with no issue. It was a separate grate and base design though.
  
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This really cool. I would buy this. Some many frustrations at the sink for a perfectionist

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- Thanks. A great majority of my prints are for stuff around the house that isn't really necessary, but nice to have, haha.
  
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This exact thing is at the top of my todo list.
I hadn't thought about doing as one big piece and just putting a collar around the faucet.
I have been searching STLs for ideas and hoping to find something that would offer a good starting place and give me a jump into creating it (I'm still a bit of a 3d cad newb). I don't suppose you have the files hosted anywhere that I could grab them?

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- I made it in Fusion360. Can send you the file if you want.
  
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  I would appreciate that.
  
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- I made something like this for my sink. It's basically a ramp that directs water back into the sink near the faucet. Wet hand + faucet handle over counter = water on counter. We've since changed our instant hot water tap, so the fixture doesn't fit as well as it used to, but it's still good enough.
  
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