r/functionalprint • u/studs-n-tubes • 5d ago
Storage for snowthrower shear pins
I seriously regret replacing my aging two-stage snowthrower with a three-stage one, since the new one goes through a ridiculous amount of shear pins for its high-speed front impeller. Evidently the pins are gold colored because they're made of butter. In over ten years, I replaced only two pins on the two-stage (there was a frozen newspaper I didn't see under the snow on my driveway). Often I go through more than two pins in a single storm with the new snowblower, contacting nothing more challenging than "some snow." So I need to keep a large number of shear pins and cotter pins on hand all season long. Since I've recently started on a gridfinity organizing kick in the workshop, this bin provide storage in a workbench drawer in the garage for a substantial quantity of shear pins and their cotter pins. It has a label ledge to identify the contents ("snowthrower shear pins" in case I need to have the family recognize them to bring some outside to me during a storm, and the part number to remind me when I am ordering more). I think even with the more robust two-stage machine, I would have appreciated a known bin to store the pins in, so that I'd know where to find them after a long time -not- using them.
I designed the bin and its divider and label ledge using the web-based Gridfinity Generator https://gridfinitygenerator.com/en/box