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Elastic Pliers / Tweasers / Foreceps
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Just a quick tool to make placing elastics easier
Kinda like circlip pliers
I've found the small 'braces' orthodontal elastics are cheap and quite useful for the types of mechanisms I like to design
But they are fiddly to insert/route places - so I made this tool specifically for that purpose.
Would work for any small elastic (braid elastics, small o-rings, etc)
Uses an ~6mm m3 screw (countersunk)
(though if you have cad experience, and no screws, could probs be designed to do without)
[Onshape CAD here](https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7a05240adbfaf82dee6e59b2/w/30027d293e641417b0892dd3/e/eb361aab11e428eabcd8c316?renderMode=0&uiState=6957fd7db2481ac40fcff9a6)
Kinda like circlip pliers
I've found the small 'braces' orthodontal elastics are cheap and quite useful for the types of mechanisms I like to design
But they are fiddly to insert/route places - so I made this tool specifically for that purpose.
Would work for any small elastic (braid elastics, small o-rings, etc)
Uses an ~6mm m3 screw (countersunk)
(though if you have cad experience, and no screws, could probs be designed to do without)
[Onshape CAD here](https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7a05240adbfaf82dee6e59b2/w/30027d293e641417b0892dd3/e/eb361aab11e428eabcd8c316?renderMode=0&uiState=6957fd7db2481ac40fcff9a6)
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