Laundry Limpet

The door to my front loading washer, left to itself, will swing all the way open and get in my way. Apparently there are actual commercial gadgets to prop doors open a bit, but why buy one of those when I have a 3D printer?

Thus was born the Laundry Limpet - a magnet embedded in a 3D printed blob which will hold a wire I'll bend to grab the door handle. Lift the wire and I can rotate it out of the way, when I want the washer to air out, rotate the wire back and drop it into the handle to hold the door.

This uses the same technique as my Captured magnet prints I did to put on the refrigerator, this time on the washing machine instead.

Here's the print paused after printing till just before the bridge over the magnet will print:

Here's the magnet and cover inserted into the print (I carelessly snaped the thin cover, but it works just as well in two pieces as in one):

(The cover gets the rest of the magnet as high as the two bumps on the top of this magnet so the filament will be properly supported all the way across the print.)

And here's the first layer printed over the top of the magnet to embed it in the print:

It finished printing:

Clearly I should have unchecked the "infill only where necessary" box in the slicer, but the defects should only be cosmetic, it should work fine.

Finally, here it is holding the door open just a bit:

The wire is some 14 gauge solid copper wire I had with the insulation stripped off. Seems to be plenty heavy duty enough for this.

I've made it through a few loads of laundry now with no problems (didn't poke my eye out on the wire or anything). It still holds the door (Dang! I should have called it Hodor!), so it looks like a definite success.