Quinn NelsonSo my house has a super janky wall box. Very out of code, on an old exterior brick wall, and stupidly shallow. It has been an open hole for 3 years. Finally got an electrician out and they basically said “if you fix this, it’s gonna be a billion dollars” (which I anticipated).
I decided to take matters into my own hands by designing an offset box extender on my iPad in Shapr3D. I tried a couple different styles but thought an angular one was the slimmest. Then I printed a few test prototypes to check fit!
My Bambu Lab A1C 3D printer spit the frame out in just a couple hours and the finished product looks pretty good! I do need to print it again with a white closer to the Lutron frame, but HEY, it’s not hideous! SUCCESS! I like that I recessed the Lutron frame as well.
All in all? A good fix!
All in all? A good fix!
John Siracusa@snazzyq This is some real New England house energy.
Quinn NelsonSide note: everybody here and on Twitter recognized the issue and reason for my solution. Everybody on Threads is telling me about mud rings, risers, and extenders as if I didn’t explore every avenue to fix the problem without having to spend hours doing this haha. Most just don’t understand the actual issue so I must have explained poorly. (2/2)
Don Whiteside@snazzyq In fairness, assuming that someone with a 3D printer ignored every other possible solution and jumped straight into 3d printing a solution is possibly the most reasonable assumption in the history of assumptions.
Though it's the opposite of reasonable to think that said 3d printer owner wasn't well aware that they could have solved the problem in another way that would take a tenth as long but just didn't care.
@snazzyq The dimmer switch for my dining room light had a metal bump-out box that looked like it was installed in the 50s. It existed for the same reason you made yours: the cavity (no box, hah) in the wall behind it was too small to hold both the wires and a switch box. Solution? Bump out!
@siracusa Haha! I had a few no-box slices when we moved in but I have since fixed all. This one, however, was screwed into brick with 2” deep studs surrounding it so I didn’t care to trifle with it 😂
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