Vaseinator 1.16.0

A new lid for tissue box covers that slides on like a battery cover and can't be levered off. Print the cover again for it. The web version has it too: https://rickusinggithub.github.io/vaseinator/.

Download & run (Windows)

1. Download Vaseinator.exe below and run it. It is one file: nothing to unzip or install. SHA256SUMS.txt holds its checksum.
2. The app isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

No Python needed. To run from source on any OS, see the README. Or just use it in your browser: https://rickusinggithub.github.io/vaseinator/.

Changed in 1.16.0

• Why the old lid fell off. Its tabs caught on ledges inside the cover's ends. But a thin cover wall is stiff only near its corners - the middle of an end bows out at a touch - and a ledge inside a cover printed upside down has to have a sloping face. So the weight of a box of tissues pushed the walls apart and the lid slipped off, however big the catch.
• The new lid slides on. The cover now has four short rails inside its long sides, by the corners, where the wall is stiff. The lid has four rigid hooks that never have to bend:
  • Lay the lid on the rim with its pull tab's end sticking out 8 mm, then push it along till it clicks. Each hook slides in behind its rail and wedges tighter as it comes home, so the lid is drawn tight against the rim, with no wiggle.
  • A latch by the pull tab - a flat spring, printed flat, the strong way - springs up inside the cover's end, so the lid can't slide back. A stop at the far end says it is home.
  • To change the tissues, lift the tab a little and pull: the lid slides back and lifts off.
  • A fence along each long side keeps the lid from sagging under the box of tissues.
• Lid grip (Gentle, Snug, Firm) now sets how tightly the hooks fit the rails: a step firmer if the lid is loose, a step gentler if it is hard to slide home.
• Print the cover again. A cover made before 1.16 has no rails, so the new lid won't hold on it. To try the fit first without a long print, set the box's Tall to 1.2 cm and print that short cover with its lid.
• Changes to covers: the rails replace the ledges inside the ends; the long sides have at least 4.6 mm of room inside for the hooks (the Tissue Box Cover is 1.2 mm wider); the rails' faces are straight even on a lumpy or ribbed cover; and rounded hole edges keep 8.5 mm clear of the rim.

Vaseinator is free. If it has made you something you like, you can buy me a coffee.

Vaseinator 1.15.5

Every tissue box lid tab is now the same - 2 mm thick, at both ends - and the catches stick out further. The web version has it too: https://rickusinggithub.github.io/vaseinator/.

Download & run (Windows)

1. Download Vaseinator.exe below and run it. It is one file: nothing to unzip or install. SHA256SUMS.txt holds its checksum.
2. The app isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

No Python needed. To run from source on any OS, see the README. Or just use it in your browser: https://rickusinggithub.github.io/vaseinator/.

Changed in 1.15.5

• All the tabs are alike. The hooks were made thicker than the latches on purpose (in 1.15.4, 3.2 mm against 2 mm; before that, 1.6 mm against 1 mm), so one end of the lid looked twice as thick as the other. Now every tab, at both ends, is 2 mm thick - twice the old thin ones - with the same bump and the same height. The hooks still go in first, tilted, and the latches by the pull tab click in.
• The catches stick out further, behind the ledge, by Lid grip: Gentle 0.75 mm, Snug 0.95 mm, Firm 1.15 mm (from 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9 mm). They may now come to within 0.05 mm of the wall above the ledge, rather than 0.3 mm, so a catch reaches nearly as far as the ledge is deep. Where a cover's wall comes in above the ledge - rounded hole edges, lumps - the catch stops just short of it.
• It fits the covers you've already printed: save the lid again.

Vaseinator is free. If it has made you something you like, you can buy me a coffee.

Vaseinator 1.15.4

A stronger tissue box lid: twice-as-thick tabs, a bigger catch on the hooks, and every tab at an end the same size. The web version has it too: https://rickusinggithub.github.io/vaseinator/.

Download & run (Windows)

1. Download Vaseinator.exe below and run it. It is one file: nothing to unzip or install. SHA256SUMS.txt holds its checksum.
2. The app isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.

No Python needed. To run from source on any OS, see the README. Or just use it in your browser: https://rickusinggithub.github.io/vaseinator/.

Changed in 1.15.4

• Twice as thick, so they don't break. The hooks are now 3.2 mm thick (from 1.6 mm), and the latches 2 mm (from 1 mm).
• The hooks catch further: 1 mm behind the ledge, from 0.7 mm. They go in tilted, so they needn't bend. The latches still catch by Lid grip - Gentle, Snug or Firm; being thicker, they are stiffer to click in.
• Fixed: the tabs at one end could differ in size. On a textured cover the wall measures a little differently at each tab, and each was made to fit its own spot - up to 1.3 mm different in height. Now all the tabs at an end are one shape, each just inside the wall where it stands.
• It fits the covers you've already printed: save the lid again.

Vaseinator is free. If it has made you something you like, you can buy me a coffee.