These drinkware lid racks are a derivative of my mason jar lid racks, adapted to be compatible with YETI® Rambler® and Stronghold® lids.
During my tenure at West Marine, I had access to a generous employee discount on YETI products. My family ended up with a lot of tumblers and mugs of varying sizes… but honestly, there are worse problems to have. We almost never have to deal with our hot or cold drinks being any other temperature than they were intended to be, and the durable steel tumblers are perfect for clumsy people like me.
Lots of YETIs means lots of lids
Now, every YETI we have came with its own lid, and we have spares as well. Lids with the magnetic slider, lids with straw inserts, lids with just a sipping hole… we have what can be described as “many.”
Just like mason jar lids, YETI lids don’t stack or nest terribly well. The ones with magnetic sliders in particular never seem to line up quite right, and the magnets repel each other. Our drinkware cabinet had a few repurposed cardboard boxes in it to tame the mess, but I decided it needed a better solution.
Creating the new version
I’d already done 95% of the work with my mason jar lid racks. At that time, YETI had the dimensions of their lids published on their website. I created copies of my mason jar lid rack CAD file, and adjusted the dimensions to fit the YETI lids:
- Small Rambler lids (wine tumblers, narrow and/or short drink tumblers)
- Medium Rambler lids (short mugs, the ubiquitous YETI tumbler, tall mugs)
- Large Rambler lids (wide mugs, extra-large tumblers, stackable cups)
- 20oz Stronghold
- 30oz Stronghold
I also added my logo and other branding information, as well as the size of lid each rack fits. Just like with the mason jar lid rack, the drinkware lid racks hold up to six lids apiece for the Rambler lids, and four lids apiece for Stronghold lids.
We found that especially with the magnetic slider lids, storing the lids vertically often worked better. Good news: the lid racks fit in most drawers!