Our trashcan's Lid mechanism broke.

Unfortunately it's made out of Polypropylene, so no glue (including epoxy) would work on such a small joint in the plastic. Even tried super glue with a special primer...

So I took out my calipers and made it work another way.

The part itself isn't very friendly for 3D printing and was clearly designed for injection molding. So scanning would not be smart to do.

Some of its core features (for some of the hinge mechanism underneath) would cause some overhangs either way. So didn't keep all the design rules for printing in mind...

To maintain strength and prevent the same break happening in the new part, it needed to be printed vertically. Nothing a few supports doesn't fix.

Some iterations and prints to test ...

It works, and printed in ABS-GF it's probably stronger than the original part.