Direct to joist ceiling tile fastener bracket
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Hanger designed to affix ceiling tiles direct to joist. I designed this to give an added 5 inches over a drop ceiling.
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- Printables
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- Other House Equipment
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This is a system I design that keeps the accessibility of a drop ceiling, but with out loosing the height of the room that a drop ceiling would incur.
Essentially, it uses brackets on 4 corners of a ceiling tile to keep the tile on the ceiling. The brackets are designed with a screw hole in the center that allow to screw direct to the joists.
Joist in most homes are spaced 2 feet apart, which coincides with the ceiling panels I used.
The bracket also has structure that holds a 5/16 dowel rod, that serves no structural purpose other than to fill in the gap in between the tiles and add a decorative element.
In advise using a filament that will bend before breaking and is relatively tough. I used Overture's super PLA+
The pedals of each bracket measures 1.5 inches(38mm) in length, .5 inch (14mm) from center, and .5 inch (14mm) in depth.
Bracket was designed using a 1.5 inch #6x self tapping/drilling screw that used a T-15 torx drive. Using the right filament these brackets are very forgiving on over torque with an impact driver. In my experience, they will stretch/strip/compress and will not snap.
Also include is a structural spacer I had to use to back the recessed lights. Lights were designed for dry wall and the PVC ceiling tiles I used weren't very stiff. Spacer provided something for the lights to grasp with out flexing and denting the PVC material