Summary

Adding some Ikea Ivar shelves to a room recently, found the door bumping into it. Rather than have the hard plastic of the handle and wood frame smack together, I sketched up a door stop. I then went mad and sketched up several others to cover all situations.

There are two styles: chunky and slim. Both styles have a 'face' version, which acts as a stop against anything bumping up against the face of the shelves, and an 'end' version that covers the ends of the shelves.

Chunky uses about twice the filament as the slim, but I suspect would be more robust. Plus, I think they look better. The downside is that there are holes that print vertically, so may end up a bit messy. The vertical tubes on the hole side are to help support those loose ends during printing, another issue. It all works, just not as pristine as you may like.

The slim versions were made to try and combat the above issues. Prints flat and uses less filament. May be weaker, however.

Printing

All types are to be printed in TPU. I used 1.6mm layer with a 8% 3D honeycomb fill. Gives a nice soft rubbery bump to them.

As well as the stops, you'll need to print off a couple of pins to fix them to the shelf post (or, you can used use any 6mm dowelling you have handy). Use PLA with a 40% fill.

Then it's just a case of wrapping them around the post and finding the required position. There are 4 sets of holes to match against, which are out of sync with the Ivar post holes, so you should be able to get a fairly fine match to where you want them.

Ivar Specs

For reference, I measured the Ivar post sizes as follows:

Post = 44x32mm 2mm radius edges
Hole Pitch = 32mm
Hole Dia = 6mm
Hole centre from edge = 8m (28mm apart)