Flexible Crabber

We've all wanted a way to be able to make grab things that we've wanted to, but sometimes they don't angle well.

Tools:

Pliers

Wire cutter (if the pliers can cut wires, that works too)

Drill

3D Printer

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Materials:

3D printer filament (for the obvious reason)

Flexible wire (A lot)

Rope

Rubber bands

To be honest we were to lazy to make a claw so we just copied utilized resources from Thingiverse.

Special thanks to Petal 3D for the design.

*Note: If you do print it from here, try and fill in the inner hole a bit as we don't have that much that we need to insert into the claw, so it doesn't need.

**Additional note: If you were to so choose a different color from what your printed printed, now would be the time tw paint it.

Use some rubber bands.

Cut one to get a long strip of rubber,

Instead of using an axel, we just used some rope to loop through the hole.

Get the flexible wire and twist it.

You can do this by aligning 2 and inserting them where a drill bit might go.

This works surprisingly well, especially if the wire is flexible in the first place.

Just stick in the pole to the claw and try to not have it block the rope in any way. You can do this by moving it over to a side.

You can secure the 2 with another rubber band or glue. Just make sure it doesn't interfere with the rope.

There should now be a loose end of the rope. What you want to do is on the side of the pole that the rope is hanging from, hook a piece of metal in a loop around the rope.

Now for the loose end, just tie it on a little loop for your finger or a larger loop if you want to make a whole handle.

Bend the end of the pole for something to hold onto.