Flexi fruit picker
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- Printables
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- Outdoor & Garden
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- Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
Fruit picker or general grabber using the flavour of the month bendy fingers.
You will need:
- Painters pole / broom handle with a threaded end
- Bit of string
- Rubber band (Works fine with just one but use more if symmetry is your thing)
The fingers work well made in PETG. Everything else probably doesn't matter but I haven't experimented.
A small amount of support is needed inside the forked end of the fingers.
Everything push fits together. Hook rubber bands on, either through the holes or on the hooks on the back of the fingers. Use whichever suits the first size of rubber bands you lay your hands on. Screw it onto a pole, tie a long string through one or more of the holes in the handle piece, and go picking!
Optionally ignore the links and handle, and just run strings through the slots direct to the fingers instead.
Leave a comment or a make. Let me know how you got on. I'm open to suggestions for V4.