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title = 'Bottle Dryer?!'
date = 2025-12-25T12:00:00+01:00
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## The Idea {id=introduction}

It's christmas time. And that means finding something to give as a gift to your closest. And a problem that especially families might know is that when washing many bottles by hand, the dish rack is filled as they consume a lot of space. To tackle this, i imagined a simple bottle dryer to hold the wet bottles. After sorting ideas, I came up with a collapsible design that can adapt to the available space.

![A sketch of a design with four legs, two of which are joined in the middle to form an X, and these X-shapes are connected to each other at the ends of the legs—there are rods at each of the six ends to hold the bottles](0-sketch.png)


## The Implementation {id=implementation}

| Item | *x | (Total length) |
| ------- | -- | ------------- |
| 21 cm slats | 4 | 84 cm |
| 25 cm round timber | 6 | 150 cm |
| Nails / other fasteners for pivot points | 4 | - |
| Dowels for connecting slats to round timber | 6 | - |

Not much effort in terms of finances and time has to be put into this. Buy some wooden rods and square timbers, mark them correctly...

![The square timbers marked for the X-like assembly](1-marked.png)

... and lay them down how they should be positioned in the end:

![Everything arranged as it should be assemled later](2-arrangement.jpg)

After cutting and milling the parts, a coat of varnish needs to be applied to protect them from water and ensure their longevity. Then everything is assembled - and there you have it: the bottle dryer!

![Image showing the folding extremum points](3-collapsible.png)

![The finished bottle dryer - matte-shiny and collapsible](4-finished.jpg)