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I love SideLong‘s Door UnJam. SideLong, who hails from Melbourne, Australia has a problem when his house…oscillates. (That can happen when your house is built on sand.) The problem is that door frame to the entrance of his home shifts in relation to the actual door, resulting in a stuck door, and inevitably, some frustration.

Looking for a better solution than repeatedly damaging/bending what he could find to open the door, he looked to his most powerful tool: his MakerBot. Now, after placing the UnJams underneath his door prior to leaving home, he’s able to easily open his door upon his return, by simply stepping on his UnJam, lining up the door with the door frame.

Now I know this isn’t an issue most of us deal with on a regular basis, but this is a fantastic example of a user seeing a legitimate problem, designing and printing a solution, and sharing it for the rest of us.

Door UnJam by Sidelong

My house is built on shifting sand and is continually oscillating between Brunswick and Coburg (in Melbourne, Aust) with the direction of travel depending on the weather. This means that my front door frame has a disconcerting habit of moving and getting stuck; really stuck! It's very frustrating to get home and find that I can't get in, because the door has moved and the lock tongue is jammed into the frame. So before I managed to destroy all the screwdrivers/bike levers in the house I designed this small thing, which I call the Door UnJam, to do exactly that.

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