The worlds longest fully 3d printable tweezer
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Superlong tweezerplier - whatever - thing, to pick up some light stuff from the ground. Length: 89cm / 35"
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The challenge was to design a device that can be 3D printed to pick up a Ricola candy from the floor without me having to bend down.
The result was probably the longest 3d printable tweezers in the world ;)
If you have a modern printer for which bridging is not a problem, I recommend that you only print the handle and the connector parts with supports. For the main rods, only under the connecting pins at the very end (as in the video), these supports can also be omitted, the connecting pins just won't look as nice. You won't see them anyway once everything is assembled.
Here the assembly steps:
If the inner rail cannot be moved after printing because it sticks to the outer rail due to e.g. over-extrusion, I recommend adjusting the settings in the slicer the XY Size compensation (see picture Advanced mode of Prusaslicer) a little → - 0.1mm so that the gap dimensions become a little larger. This minimises the risk of sticking.