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Repair # 15: Replacement Halloween Clown Hook

A project log for Home Repairs with a 3D Printer

Since moving into a new home a little over two years ago, we've been fixing and improving things all over

makerblockMakerBlock 02/18/2018 at 06:470 Comments

Date: 10/9/2017

My neighbor came over a few weeks before Halloween to ask me for a favor.  Their creepy Halloween evil clown decoration hanging on their front porch had fallen down.  The thin plastic loop of plastic in the top of its head had snapped in the high winds last year.  He wanted to know if I could fix it.

Yup.  I sure can.  

I took a pair of pliers and yanked out the bit of plastic still embedded in the top of the evil clown skull.  What I discovered was that the bit of plastic was pretty close to the image above.  I whipped up a quick model in OpenSCAD, printed four of them, and then shoved one into the clown skull.  (The model is so small that it's almost as quick to print four of these tiny things as it is to print just one)  I added a little hot glue for good measure and gave the fixed clown back to my neighbor.

Since this contest entry is really a collection of entries, I've uploaded the STL and OpenSCAD files to Thingiverse here.

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