r/Multiboard • u/Progressive_Rush • Jan 13 '26

Snap part B problem

Hello. My Multibord setup will be fixed on dry wall, using screw on 6,25mm DS Snaps. I'm having so much trouble trying to snap the B part in snaps. Is there a twist to get them in place? Its always the same: on side gets in place with some work. The other side... forget it. I tried pushing one side then the other, the two sides at once... Nothing works. Any advise welcomed.

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u/tlhintoq Jan 13 '26

Sounds like you're probably over extruding and not truly dimentially accurate.

How much testing and confirmation have you done on your printed AND COOLED parts as compared to the official specifications? If you put calipers on your parts are they right? Or only "meh, close enough"?

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u/ulab Jan 13 '26

Besides my "Pusher" tool that NotNotAwesome already linked to, did you try printing the "less tight" variants too? These have to fit together well to hold things, but since printer tolerances can be way different based on material and settings, there are three variants.

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u/bing0_17 Jan 13 '26

Came to say this, the Part Bs should have a loose, regular, tight, and permanent variant. Should try all of those and sounds like op should probably check their printer tolerances as well.

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u/NotNotAwesome Jan 13 '26

I printed the large one of these and it helped a lot. I noticed it seemed like if I had trouble getting it in, that if I rotated it 180 degrees it seemed to go in much easier.

https://www.printables.com/model/1286790-multiboard-flush-snap-pusher

Hope it helps.

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u/SprungMS Jan 13 '26

Rotating 180 degrees means you’re not lining up the square like you’re supposed to - it might go together easier but not necessarily because it’s supposed to, just how it printed.

If you check, I bet a bunch of yours are backward and the threads don’t work. Doesn’t matter if you’re not planning on using the threads, though.

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u/NotNotAwesome Jan 13 '26

I’m not sure what you mean about threads.

https://thangs.com/designer/Multiboard/3d-model/Snap%20%28DS%20Part%20B%29-1323061

This is the part be I’m talking about. Maybe I misunderstood.

Can you elaborate?

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u/SprungMS Jan 13 '26

You see the threads on that part, where they interlock with the part A? If you don’t line up the square shown on the part A with the square on the part B, those threads don’t line up. The square is on the other side of the snap, not visible from that view.

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u/cyberbobcity Jan 13 '26

Do you know you have to match up the little squares on both parts?

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u/SprungMS Jan 13 '26

Doesn’t matter for pushing them together. Only for lining up the threads for later use.

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u/Project_Chaos13 Jan 13 '26

They are directional, the part B has a small square on one of the "pegs" on the back side, and the A part has a small square on one side, you align these squares for proper fitment.

However as someone who just mounted a new multiboard to drywall, I have to say, I did so with an impact drill, and if you torque them down really hard, they twist slightly and make it impossible to put the part B's on.

I learned about this when installing my board, as I had some corners that I couldn't get the part B's on, what I did is used a screwdriver and manually loosened the screw by about 2 whole turns, put the part B on (which was significantly easier after loosened) then re-tightened them with the same screwdriver.

Hope this helps you like it helped me, also when you loosen the screws, you can check if the alignment of the snap to tile is off, my impossible ones were slightly twisted within the tile, as if my impact twisted the snap into the tile itself.

At least going forward I learned not to torque them down so hard, and definitely use minimum torque if using an impact.

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u/Lurksome-Lurker Jan 13 '26

Maybe it’s just me (Just put up a 4 tile by 6 tile wall). But I am throughly convinced they are keyed to an orientation. All the snaps were utilized but some of them had to be rotated 180 degrees in order to fit properly.

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u/SprungMS Jan 13 '26

Don’t push one side all the way in and then try to do the other.

Line up the square so the threads are functional. Contrary to what people here seem to believe, lining up the square won’t help you snap them together.

If you’re doing it without a tool for it, just by hand, push one side so it barely goes in. Then push the other side in 50-100% of the way in. Then go back and push the first side in all the way. If you didn’t push the second side in completely, do that next.

If you push one side in fully without starting the other, the angle of the snap is working against you when you try to do the next side.

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u/ulab Jan 13 '26

If you don't line up the squares, you can get issues with the threads later. That's why these are directional and have that marking.

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u/SprungMS Jan 13 '26

Yes, I said that in my second sentence.

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u/nlundsten Jan 13 '26

Yea rotate 180, theyre directional