Clothesline hanger hangers

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Clothesline hanger hangers

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So, being the efficient (not lazy!) engineery type that I am and with a Mrs who's the same, we don't iron, we hang shirts on the line on the hangars and it's good enough for where we work.

Only problem is that standard clothes hangers tend to jump off the line when it gets breezy.

Fixed that today. Apologies for rubbish photo, windy day and I can't get the iPhone to lock onto the clip instead of the background.

[img]http://www.simonlockwood.net/linky/3dp/hangerclip.jpg[/img]

Freecad and STL attached if anyone wants to play.

Nylon rocks for this sort of thing - nice and flexy but still strong.
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Re: Clothesline hanger hangers

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Excellent design. I love when people use simplicity to their advantage, like how you printed it flat and it bends to hook in. Very efficient.
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Re: Clothesline hanger hangers

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Yeah, mulled it over a bit and went through a few iterations to get it here - initially it was going to be something like a clothes peg that clamped onto the line with a holes in the two handles. Too hard. Then it was going to be something that scissored over the line but had little lugs that trapped the line. Too hard, lugs would break, owait this nylon's very flexible isn't it? OK - HOW DUMB CAN WE DUMB THIS DOWN? was the last challenge and I'm pleased with the result!
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