{"id":3725,"date":"2014-08-15T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2015-03-27T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:31:10","slug":"3-d-printed-16-scale-crutches-no-longer-being-3-d-printed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/08\/15\/3-d-printed-16-scale-crutches-no-longer-being-3-d-printed\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D printed 1:6 scale crutches: no longer being 3-D printed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t decided how to make the forearm cuffs, but that&#8217;s easy compared to the engineering challenge of making the crutch shafts. Diagram below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/brandeisbjd\/crutches\/diagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1670122.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1670122.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1670122.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/08\/15\/3-d-printed-16-scale-crutches-no-longer-being-3-d-printed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3-D printed 1:6 scale crutches: no longer being 3-D printed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[694],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adaptive-aids-and-healing-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}