February 19, 2023
Description
My mother has RA and requested this as she has trouble unplugging my father's kettle from the wall. It worked out so well that I wanted to share it for others with the same issue! You really won't believe how easy this makes plugs to remove.
Now for the details:
For a kitchen appliance plug, it needs one 4" zip tie and one 6" zip tie at minimum. A 4" is just barely too short to reach around the standard three-prong plug shown. Just make sure you file the edges so they don't cut your hand after you clip them off. I'm not certain what a two-prong plug will require, but I imagine two 4" zip ties will work fine.
The holes for the zip ties are 5mm wide, so they can fit a decent range of widths. I believe the zip ties pictured are 3mm wide.
The finger holes are 20mm, which is a little bigger than a ring size 10. You only need your first or second phalanges to use them, so they should work for large hands, but maybe not really large hands. This is hard for me to judge as we both have very small hands.
Thickness is 3mm.
They do work on both three-prong US plugs and two-prong US plugs, I just haven't put any on a two-prong plug for pictures yet. Which means they should also work for Japanese plugs. The base fits just right behind the ridge of a two-pronged plug.
I printed them on 20% infill on my MK3S+ with Protopasta PLA, and they're plenty sturdy. It took around 25 minutes for one, and 2.5 hours for six.
They have a slightly filleted edge that is enough to be very comfortable for both mine and my mother's arthritic hands, and print without supports.
Hope this can help some of y'all, and happy printing!
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial