Printed parts

Grips for converters that live on the end of a cable

Small converters spend most of a show dangling off their own leads, and whichever socket ends up holding them, usually the power one, was never asked whether it minded. These printed guards and clamps take the strain off it, with a tower round the plug or a block the lead is tied to: USB-C or micro-USB on the Micro Converters and the MD-LX, the 12 V barrel on the Mini Converter DAs and sync generator, and the HDMI on a 2110 IP Mini. They go on with the converter's own BNC nuts or screws, so nothing gets glued or drilled.

Where they've got to: some have been test-fitted on a real converter and some haven't yet, and each page says which. The fitting instructions were written from the models, and every page lists what's been checked and what's still to check. If you print one that hasn't been fitted yet, I'd like to hear how it went.

The models are yours to print: every page has the STLs and a 3D view, and the OpenSCAD source is on GitHub in stoatworks-parts, under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Print them, change them and share them; just don't sell them.