Background.

The coffee machine at SLQ The Edge’s café required a hole to be drilled through the sink in order for the machine to have drainage and access to water - this was installed many years ago. While chatting with my colleagues, we could see the dish water splash all over the sink area, which would ultimately run down the hole and onto a fairly inaccessible area underneath. It was a known problem but to that day, nobody had given a solution any thought.

As I grabbed my coffee and made my way down to the fabrication lab, my brain started to form an idea; silicon and ABS plastic. Half an hour later, the prototype was being printed. The size needed a bit of adjustment and I ended up splitting it in two parts, so that the collar could fit around the hoses, rather than having to go through the trouble of removing the hoses - which in reality wasn’t an option. The two halves were fused together with zap glue and used silicone to seal and secure the collar in place.

Tools.

• Fusion 360

• Up! 2 mini 3D printer