I have some slatwall in the garage and in my office for hanging tools and things. For a long time, we only had it in the garage, and only had straight hooks for hanging things. The specialty hooks for hanging things were very expensive, so we didn’t have very many things hanging on it. I found some additional straight hooks of various sizes on Amazon for a decent price.
Office Slatwall
Recently we found some 2′ x 4′ pieces of slate wall on clearance at Menards. We bought 4 pieces, with the idea of putting one piece in my office closet for hanging some tools there. The other was going to go in the basement where our son had a make-shift music studio. This would be used to hang cables and other miscellaneous things.
We have had a 3D printer for several years, and have printed a number of things, but not a lot. I decided to search for any type of slatwall hangers for various tools, such as screw drivers, pliers, and so forth. I ended up finding quite a few interesting things, including some mounts for Milwaukee battery chargers. I happen to have a number of those chargers, and decided to give the printed hangers a try.
The charger mount kind of worked, but wasn’t very sturdy. So I decided to try to design my own. I am not very good with a lot of the normal 3D modeling tools that are often used for designing 3D printing files. But I am pretty good with Sketchup. It is what I use for all of my woodworking designs.
I use UltiMaker Cura for creating gcode from .stl models. I create the models in Sketchup, and use the STL Import & Export to export my model to .stl.
I measured the various points on the charger and the slatwall spacing, and created the holder from these.
Charger Mount Sketchup
Here it is attached to the charger.
Charger Mount
Charger Mount
Charger attached to the slatwall.
Charger on Slatwall
If you would like to print one for yourself, the plans, including the Sketchup file and the .stl model, are here:
Thanks for viewing. I hope you find this useful.
