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My mom messed up her shoulder in a fall recently so I made this "wrench" in Tinkercad (edit it online https://www.tinkercad.com/things/5jGj7nK5IH9) to give her a little more leverage to lock the bottle into her Shake'n Take smoothie mixer. I removed the two lugs nearest the handles in the final version (as seen in the photos) as they are not needed and proved difficult to properly align. Less is better in this case! This is my first published design so I would love to hear your thoughts.
You will have to file or sand the end of the handle that fits into the ring a small amount to get a proper fit. I secured the handles with Plastruct Plastic Weld but any PLA adhesive should work as well.
This was printed on a New Matter Mod-T at default settings using New Matter filament.
NOTE: While this design is adequate, a newer version is available that fixes the weak handle/ring joint by printing the entire object as one unit. Shake-n-Take Sports Bottle Wrench v3
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This model worked well but proved a little weak in the handle/ring join if squeezed too hard (something that is not necessary but my mom had little control over the force applied until she had healed more. The result was that one or the other handles would break off. So, you can either make the area of the joint more "solid" by editing the file or print parameters. Or look for the improved model that I created after this one. It has the handles and ring as one unit so it is stronger but the handles are shorter due to the print capacity of my printer.