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The weather got warm enough to open the windows before pollen season started, which led to the front bathroom door slamming closed in the middle of the night when a gusty rainstorm blew through town. After far too many years, I decided this was an annoyance up with which I need no longer put.

A few minutes with OpenSCAD and Slic3r produces the shape:

Bathroom Door Retainer - Slic3r — Bathroom Door Retainer – Slic3r

It’s basically an extrusion of a 2D shape with a rectangular recess for the door chewed out.

An hour later, it’s in full effect:

Bathroom Door Retainer - installed — Bathroom Door Retainer – installed

The model now sports a little ball to secure the retainer against the towel bar:

Bathroom Door Retainer - bump — Bathroom Door Retainer – bump

Maybe someday I’ll reprint it.

That was easy …

The cast-iron pig sometimes standing guard as a doorstop in the relatively narrow doorway poses a bit of a foot hazard, so he moves into a closet during the off season. He can now remain there, snug and comfy, until a need for ballast arises.

The OpenSCAD source code as a GitHub Gist:

	// Bathroom Door Retainer
	// Ed Nisley KE4ZNU – May 2017

	Layout = "Show"; // Show Build

	//——-
	//- Extrusion parameters must match reality!

	ThreadThick = 0.20;
	ThreadWidth = 0.40;

	HoleWindage = 0.2;

	Protrusion = 0.1; // make holes end cleanly

	function IntegerMultiple(Size,Unit) = Unit * ceil(Size / Unit);

	//——-
	// Dimensions

	TowelBarSide = 20.5; // towel bar across flat side
	TowelBarAngle = 45; // rotation of top flat from horizontal

	DoorOffset = 16.0; // from towel bar to door
	DoorThick = 36.5;

	WallThick = 4.0; // minimum wall thickness

	RetainerDepth = 10.0; // thickness of retaining notch

	NumSides = 6*4;
	CornerRad = WallThick;

	BarClipOD = TowelBarSidesqrt(2) + 2WallThick;
	BarClipRad = BarClipOD/2;

	OAH = RetainerDepth + WallThick;

	module LatchPlan() {

	union() {
	linear_extrude(height=OAH,convexity=4)
	difference() {
	union() {
	circle(d=BarClipOD,$fn=NumSides);
	hull()
	for (i=[0,1], j=[0,1])
	translate([i(BarClipRad + DoorOffset + DoorThick + WallThick – CornerRad),j(BarClipRad – CornerRad)])
	circle(r=CornerRad,$fn=4*4);
	}
	rotate(TowelBarAngle) // towel bar shape
	square(size=TowelBarSide,center=true);
	translate([0,-TowelBarSide/sqrt(2)]) // make access slot
	rotate(-TowelBarAngle)
	square(size=[2*TowelBarSide,TowelBarSide],center=false);
	}
	translate([0,-TowelBarSide/sqrt(2),OAH/2])
	rotate([90,0,45])
	sphere(r=TowelBarSide/25,$fn=4*3);
	}
	}

	module Latch() {

	difference() {
	LatchPlan();
	translate([BarClipRad + DoorOffset,-BarClipRad/2,-Protrusion])
	cube([DoorThick,BarClipOD,RetainerDepth + Protrusion],center=false);
	}
	}

	//——-
	// Build it!

	if (Layout == "Show") {
	Latch();
	}

	if (Layout == "Build") {
	translate([0,0,OAH])
	rotate([180,0,0])
	Latch();
	}

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