Modulex-Compatible Drawer System

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Modulex-Compatible Drawer System

By HalfwitTomfoolery

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Modulex-Compatible Drawer System

By HalfwitTomfoolery

at 2024-05-02
This is a drawer system which is designed to be fully compatible with the vintage Lego/Modulex M20 drawer storage systems from around the 70's era. It includes: * The housing, which is printable in two halves and can be glued together to make one single drawer level * The drawers * The bins that go inside of the drawers to organize your bricks and tiles * A lid piece which is printed flat and bent at the seams to nest into the drawers * Feet, in both round and stripe styles, so the printed drawers can fully interlock with both styles of MDF-based drawer housings with feet, or can be left off and used with the non-interlocking plywood drawers. All parts of this are designed to be fully compatible and interchangeable with existing Lego/Modulex M20 drawer components, so for example an existing vintage cardboard drawer can be slotted into a printed housing and a printed lid can be used to replace an original cardboard housing. So this can also be used to replace parts which have gone missing on an authentic original vintage drawer system. The foot channels are designed to accept either round or stripe foot styles and can interlock with either. But the design is also customizable so you can generate just one style or the other depending on which ones you have in your collection. And if you are using a 3D printed housing with original vintage drawers, there are channels in the housing where you can glue in pieces of felt so the housing's plastic and layer lines do not scratch up your vintage drawers.

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Drawer housing printed using Hatchbox PLA PRO+ in light orange. Gray eSUN PLA+ also works well. Drawers printed in eSUN PLA+ in gray. It's not a perfect color match, but it's close enough for me. Bins printed using eSUN PETG in transparent, although this is more just an aesthetic choice since the originals were generally raw cardboard. Lids printed using Hatchbox PETG in blue for a closer-to-authentic color or 3DXTech Transparent Sapphire PETG for a version you can see through, like in the pictures. Atomic Filament PETG in transparent aqua also looks nice. Feet printed in SainSmart TPU in gray for the round feet and 3DXTech TPU for the black stripe feet (the original round feet were gray and the original stripe feet were black). Additionally, if you are using a printed housing with vintage cardboard drawers, there are channels in the housings for felt so as not to scratch up the vintage drawers. But you will want to get an archival felt or at least one that is a synthetic material with the colorant integrated into the plastic rather than a natural material with dye that could leach. I found this stuff to be about perfect: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08794TYY7/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087949Q88/ Just cut strips to fit the slots and glue them into the housing. I would not, however, recommend doing this if you are using a 3D printed housing with 3D printed drawers since they will slide quite nicely without having felt to catch on.

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