I'm a student at Mount Sinai and got a TRYSIL wardrobe from IKEA a few years ago that has served me very well ever since. Two years ago, however, I noticed once of the shelves in the wardrobe was tilted. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that one of the plastic pegs that hold up the shelf had broken away. I figured I'd print a replacement part, so I grabbed one of the intact pegs, took some measurements and made a CAD model in Solidworks. I printed the model in PLA on my Printrbot Simple Metal, at something probably close to 100% infill and 0.2mm layer height. The replacement luckily worked on the first try and has served me exceptionally well ever since.
Fast forward to this past year, and now one of the pegs that holds my clothes rod breaks, so I go and grab my calipers and start CADing. Due to the loads experienced by this piece, though, regular FDM wouldn't work, so I sent the model out to Shapeways to print in SLS nylon. This replacement has also served me reliab
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The shelf peg can be easily printed on an FDM printer without supports and a high infill % (I might have even used 100%). I used PLA to print, but ABS or any other rigid FDM plastic should work.
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Clothes Rod Peg Printing
I wasn't able to successfully print the clothes rod peg to be strong enough to bear sufficient load, so I just sent it out for SLS nylon printing. It might work with a really strong thermoplastic like polycarbonate or a carbon fiber filament.