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"Nice" said my girlfriend. "That will attract some attention at our stand at the fair. But how are we going to hang it to the walls ???"
Well making some small holes in the cardboard and put a tiny wire from the back to the front, would be an option. Then we could make a knot at the front that can not pass the hole and were set.
There is only a small problem with this.
The combined weight of the letter and the small paintings in it might have the wire cut in the cardboard. And presuming we might use this more often on fairs I did not want the cardboard getting damaged. So I came up with this.
I designed it in Tinkercad and then printed it on my Creality CR20 Pro. I printed it in black so it would nicely blend in with the black paint of the letters.
It is a small rectangle with a length of 3 cm and a width of 2 cm and it is 2mm thick.
In the middle there is a cylinder of 9mm wide with in the middle a hole of 3mm. The cylinder is 7mm high.
The 9mm wide cylinder is pushed through a hole in the cardboard and the rope gets through the hole.
That way the rope does not cut into the cardboard.
The cylinder is higher than the cardboard so it sticks out a bit.
This makes sure the rope does not leans on the cardboard.
The baseplate is glued to the backside of the letters. This gives extra strength and makes sure it does not tilt.
And that is all.
You can get the design from Tinkercad if you need it and adjust it to your own needs.
And this is how the final construction was displayed at the fair.
Till next time.
Have fun
Luc Volders
