Adapter for Modulex Drawers

Allows you to stack plywood Modulex drawer housings in a stack with either round-foot or stripe-foot MDF housings

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Description

In my Lego Modulex collection, I have three different kinds of drawer housings:

  1. Presumably more modern MDF-based drawers with round rubber feet (rare - orange in the pictures)
  2. Presumably more modern MDF-based drawers with stripe-shaped rubber feet (far more common)
  3. Plywood-based drawers which do not have feet

The advantage of the drawer housings with feet is that they also have recesses in the top so that when you stack them they lock together. Considering you're pulling the drawers out and pushing them back in, having them lock together helps a lot to keep them from sliding and tipping over.

This adapter attempts to solve that problem by locking around the edges of a plywood-based Modulex drawer and adding places for the feet to interlock. Also included are models of both types of feet.

Of note, one strange thing about the round-style drawer housings is that the feet are not placed on a rectangle. They're not even placed on a trapezoid. And the alignment of them on the top on bottom don't really match. This design reflects that by including all of the placements and reflections of them so the adapters can be used on either the top or bottom of a footless drawer housing and should still match up with an adjoining round-footed drawer housing. It's a little less of a positive interlock, but it seems to be adequate.

Materials and methods

I printed the adapters in eSUN Grey PLA+. The color does not match perfectly, so if you can find a better match, go for it.

For both a top and a bottom adapter, you will need to print two Left pieces and two Right pieces. They can be flipped and work either way.

To get this to interlock with another drawer, you will need to print feet for the bottom. In one of the pictures you can see these feet printed in black. For the stripe-style feet (which were originally black) I used 3DXTech TPU. For the round-style feet (which were originally grey) I used SainSmart TPU.

For all parts, be sure to clean them well after printing. I did find that if there was hairspray residual from the bed that came into contact with an original drawer housing, it tended to eat away at the paint. So make sure your parts are fully 100% clean.

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67da5cd0ebeb22881f3720cbcb8350e2?default=blank&size=40HalfwitTomfoolery published this design ago