3D Printed handle (for a De Longhi Milk Container).

Boys and Girls,

 

With all the activity in 3D printing (2.5K comments), this may only be pertinent to a select few 3D enthusiasts, but being the “animal” that I am, I thought I’d release some of it on the "other half" unsuspecting innocents.

 

The boffins at De Longhi must have had a meltdown or decided to replace their design personnel, by a bunch of Yankee college graduates as the designer of their PrimaDonna coffee machine was either a werewolf with sharp claws or sub-contracted the design to an intern that never drank coffee.

 

In my humble opinion, the machine is great, however, the attachment/detachment of their milk container suck… or not.  

In all fairness, if one judiciously cleans the milk spout after every single use, 

with wipe downs, 

or application of lube.

and you are judicious, leave now, but as us mere males are not and even if you brew tea with a name like Moses (he brew) you may not be as vigorous as that Le Dinghi developer envisioned.... even the dead lemon felt inferior.

To remove the milk container 

using the indentations

was an arduous tasks that resulted in broken fingernails (hence the werewolf reference) and surrendering to the dark side and brewing up a potta tea (ugh!).

 

Onto SketchUp, and designed a cradle/handle.  

Printed it back in 2017… though a tad skewed, it fit and is still in use

 

 

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