At a glance
| Best for | One-off mounting problems where no off-the-shelf bracket exists |
|---|---|
| Material | PETG — black as standard, white and other colours on request |
| Typical price | £15–£40 depending on size and how much material the shape needs |
| Lead time | Dispatched 2–3 working days from payment |
| Minimum order | One, though pairs are common |
| Maximum part size | 256 × 256 × 256 mm in one piece; larger parts split and joined |
What we take on
- Wall and rail mounts for tools, batteries and equipment
- Camera, monitor, screen and antenna mounts
- Enclosure and PCB mounting plates
- Adapter plates that join two things never meant to meet
What to send
Brackets live or die on their fixings, so a little more information than usual is worth sending.
- The STL
- What it will hold and roughly how heavy that is
- Which direction the load pulls — hanging down, pulling out from the wall, or both
- What it fixes to: plasterboard, timber, steel, or another printed part
How the price is worked out
Brackets are priced by volume rather than footprint, because a chunky gusseted bracket uses far more plastic than a flat plate of the same size. If a bracket comes out more expensive than you expected, thinning the body while keeping the ribs is normally the cheapest thing to change.
Where this works well
- Static loads up to a few kilograms with sensible wall thickness
- Shapes that would be awkward or expensive to fabricate in metal
- Situations where a bolt pattern has to match something existing exactly
Where it doesn’t
- Overhead loads where a failure would drop something on someone
- Anything structural in a building
- Long unsupported spans — printed plastic sags under sustained load
Three things that decide whether a bracket holds
Wall thickness. Under 2.5 mm on a load-bearing bracket is optimistic. Three to four millimetres with 40% infill is a sensible starting point for anything carrying real weight.
Ribs, not bulk. A triangular gusset between the vertical and horizontal faces does more than doubling the thickness everywhere, and costs a fraction of the material.
Fixing holes. Print them 0.4 mm oversize so the screw is not fighting the plastic, and put a generous radius where the hole meets the edge. Sharp internal corners are where printed parts split.
Questions people ask about this
Can you design the bracket for me?
For straightforward shapes, sometimes — send dimensions and a sketch and we will say whether it is something we can draw and what it would cost. Complex assemblies are better handled by a CAD designer.
How much weight will it take?
It depends entirely on geometry, so we will not give a number we cannot stand behind. Tell us the load and we will say whether the design looks sensible or where we would add material.
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