Originally shared by Stephen Baird
It’s silly, but I’m actually pretty proud of this one. Especially since it has been a while since I designed something really useful.
This is a drive caddy for a 2.5" hard drive. My new Acer E5-575 ships with a nice M2 SSD in it and an empty 2.5" drive bay. I figured I would put a nice big drive in there for bulk storage and save the SSD for things I wanted fast access to and the OS.
…so the drive arrives, I pop the laptop open, and discover that the drive won’t fit in bare. It flops around and is in no way secure. I look into it a little and discover that Acer makes (and sells) a nice little drive caddy to fix that problem. And the laptop doesn’t actually come with one.
So I took an evening and made one. It took four revisions, especially because I had no dimensions of the bay at all (and my digital calipers were out of commission) so I made it based on the published technical drawings of the drive itself, a small ruler, and guesswork.
Four tries later, it works! And works really well, actually. I’m pleasantly surprised at myself.
If, for some reason, you need one of these I’ve provided it for the world here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2121128
I expect it to get a grand total of two downloads, both of which will be Thingiverse scraping bots. But that’s ok too.
