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3-D printed 1:6 scale crutches: no longer being 3-D printed

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While I was lying in bed earlier this week, I hit on a possible way to construct 1:6 scale forearm crutches without the exorbitant expense of printing something so long. I can bend plastic drinking straws to the appropriate 15-degree angle and then fill them with Aves Apoxie Sculpt so that they stay in that position!!!! I have also recently acquired some dowels that I can cut down to make hand rests for the crutches. I haven’t decided how to make the forearm cuffs, but that’s easy compared to the engineering challenge of making the crutch shafts. Diagram below.

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http://www.amazon.com/AMACO-Friendly-Plastic-Pellets-4-4-Ounce/dp/B0026HWG16

It looks like this could be an option. There used to be a sheet form of plastic kind of like this, but that was 20 years ago. And I’m not sure how thick Wonderflex is. There are some thermoplastic mesh sheets that are fairly thin, but they’re super expensive, since they’re sold for use in real orthotics.

This seems like the cheapest option with the most online tutorials in small scale projects, that could be adapted to your uses.

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