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I bought a 200 pack of safety razors and didn't have a nice place to store them by the sink, so I modeled a dispenser in . I'm slowly getting better at it. It is nice to be able to make useful things.

An Ikea SKADIS pegboard with 3d printed washroom accessories for holding shaving supplies and whatnot.  In the center is a safety blade dispenser, stocked with over 200 safety blades.

Writing out loud... maybe now that I have so many blades, I can convince myself to not use each one for so long. I'm way too frugal with blades. I end up using the same one for at least two weeks. Dude, they are about ¥18 a blade. That is less than ¥500 a year. I can afford to go through them a bit faster. Ok, for now on I will replace the blade every week. I can do this.

And even if I use one blade a week, it will take four years to run through the current stock.
The kids have started shaving a bit, but they are afraid they will cut their heads off with these. So, they get the subscription based, micro-transaction, drm protected, ad injected, proprietary Gillette cartridges rather than going to college I guess.

I have ove rtime developed a bit of an eye for design for manufacturing in 3D printing, that looks like it would be really hard to print in one piece. You either put the bottom on the bottom and have this big gap to get over, or on top and you have a tough overhang, or you printed on its side and have a huge overhang you have to print there.

How did you end up printing it? Just a bunch of time cleaning up supports, or is it multiple pieces glued together or something? Or is there some internal design that's not obvious but limits overhangs?
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@sj_zero I printed it in the same upright position as you see in the photo. The only supports I used were for the pegboard pegs in the back and the little 1.5mm gap that the razors are pulled through. The walls are all 1.5mm thick. I printed it using PETG filament.
I'm not sure how well an older printer would handle the challenge, but this Core One has no issues with jobs like this. I didn't even use a brim. I'm about a month into 3d printing, but it amazes on every print.