Galaxy Smart Watch Charger Holder

Boys and Girls,

I have been a naughty, naughty boy and being a drinking partner, Santa decided against black listing me and drop my prezzie off before Christmas while on his way to North Pole rubbity-dub.

Now a watch choosing it’s owner is a smarter move than the owner choosing a Smart watch. It may be a smart watch but it kept getting in my way and falling out of its cradle and even off my desktop. I pondered an alternative over a few glasses of vino and decided to hang it off the end of my desk when it wasn’t loitering around on my wrist.

As always, off to Sketchup and after some brainstorming, came up with this design (Mk.II… more later),

and a peek-a-boo,

Cut out of 3mm and 6mm MDF it was off to the workshop for the glue up.

all that was required were a few alignment dowels and PVA glue.

Now there was nothing magical about this as I used my dowel alignment principle to ensure that the laminated pieces got alligned evenly/square.

Off the lazer, it was initially a perfect fit.

The watch’s cradle was a super snug fit into my holder, however, as it was squeezed in, the USB charger allowance gap spread the holder enough to make insertion into the “wall mounting” difficult.

I made one cradle and two wall mounts, so it was deemed easier to sand back the one cradle than the two mounts… DOH! Another great plan that didn’t seem to work… I did have to do some doctoring on the wall mounts as well… nevertheless I prefer a tighter fit than redesign looser tolerances on SU for the laser. Even had to resort to hand tools other than a scraper and my shoulder plane made the task much easier.

I then took it over to the buffer and after putting it through the 3 grades of wax (Tripoli, White Diamond and Carnauba – the Beall system) it finished up a smooth fit.

Screwed it to the side of my work desk near the other electrical paraphernalia. I can reserve the 2nd. wall mount for some alternative place.

My first design was very simple, however, it was a 1 piece suite (and we all prefer a 2 piece) that held the cradle firm and had to be unscrewed if you wanted to travel with the cradle…

after all the watch only has about a 2.5 day charge… and even less if you make phone calls from it. With the new design, you can lift the holder out and place it with the cradle into your traveling bag…

For all you hard of reading, here is another one of my annoying videos attempting to educate people in how not to make a video of smart watch holders.

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