Cord/Rope Anchor Attachment for 5m Pachawk Windsock/Spinner Telescopic Pole (use TPU)

I bought a windsock and pole at the Portsmouth Kite Festival, to put up for fun when I'm flying my stunt kites. 

The normal anchorage is a stout rod, carbon or steel, banged into the ground, and then the extended hollow rod is placed over it. Which means carrying a mallet around as well as the extra rod.

So I designed a TPU 3-hole widget which slides down from the end of the pole and then fits snugly on the second-lowest section, prevented from going further down by the ledge of the lowest tube.

PRINTING - I used Shore 95A TPU (Eryone Black), 0.4mm nozzle, 0.2mm layers, 5 walls, 35% infill with lines, no support or adhesion, all other settings standard for TPU. On my Elegoo N3Pro I use unheated PEI printbed for this TPU and it sticks perfectly and peels off very cleanly and easily, it's a really super filament to work with but you have to print it painfully slowly (20mm/sec, first layer 10mm/sec!!!) and you have to keep it bone dry (I keep it in a drybox with a dehumidifier in it and there's a PTFE feed tube so I can print directly from the drybox without breaking the seal).

It can be secured to the ground using 3 cords/ropes and tent pegs or print yourself some suitable ones from Printables and something to adjust the cords - I've added mine in the ACCESSORIES section below.

The bottom of the Pachawk pole has a nice rubber ferrule on it so that helps secure it too if the cords are nice and tight, or if could be dented into the ground a bit, or just a short stub of rod pushed into the ground will do to stop it slipping. I might design a little cup for it with a spikey bottom that will poke into the ground - it only needs a little help to prevent slips if the wind gusts a lot.

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ACCESSORIES...

This is my model for the ground screw anchors...  

This is my model for the guy rope tensioners...