The bottom hinge of my shower cabinet door is broken. Can’t buy a replacement because it’s too old. I think about design it and print in metal. Or to sawing and filling it out of a metallic block.

I‘m not sure how stable a metallic print is. The glass door is quite heavy either around 15 kilos. Do you guys have recommendations?

And do you know a metallic print service in Germany or Europe? I own just a plastic printer

  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Its probably the easiest to buy another hinge for glass that doesnt require holes on glass like

    Then mount it above the broken hinge.

    I think metal printing and/or CNC machining could be way over expensive, but please let us know the price if you go that route. If you really want to solve this with 3D printing consider printing it from plastic and reinforcing it with steel (wire, screws, tube, or reuse existing hinge parts), but it will never look good as if you buy a hinge

      • DrunkenPirate@feddit.deOPEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Hi guys, thx for all your help. My project is finally successful. Shower hinge repaired - entire shower cabinet usable now. Let’s give you a short feedback:

        • I‘ve chosen PCBway as it was the cheapest with 90€ for stainless steel, laser sintering.
        • Other both providers were around 300€ up to 1000€ ( this one in chrome though)
        • The production & delivery time was quite long with 2-3 weeks from China. But I‘m not in a hurry.
        • I did two plastic prototypes first and discovered always a few new details I didn’t recognize first.
        • The metallic print is stainless steel (hope better than Tesla quality) and it‘s fully printed - not the walls only.

        At all it costs 130€ for the print, oil, silicone sealant and some other things. Saved me approx 2-4000€ for a new shower cabinet as spare parts were out of production. A picture in comment below.