Did your keys fall into the sewer grate, did a bolt fall to the bottom of the engine, or did the drain hole become clogged? A flexible grip will help. And this is not a complete list of where this device can be useful.
Will need
- Steel spring.
- Wire 2-3 mm.
- Connection terminal
- Thin PVC tube.
- A piece of heat shrink.
- Spring stop.
Manufacturing of flexible gripper
We need to find a small steel spring. We will use it to make the capture itself.
Let's stretch it by holding it in a vice and pulling it out with pliers.
Cut 4 identical pieces from the resulting wire.
Take one part from the double connecting terminal. Insert 4 pieces of wire into it and tighten with a screw.
Next, take a 1.5 meter piece of thick wire.
And screw it to the second half of the terminal.
The terminal screws must be cut off with a hacksaw.
The thin ends of the wire must be bent at the ends and bent from the center.
Insert the wire with the grip into a thin PVC tube.
Next you need to find the spring stop.
Let's take it apart and take out the spring.
We will put the spring from it on a strand of thick wire. We grind off the screw, drill it and thread a wire through it, bend it and fix it.
Next, we will put the emphasis on the entire structure.
We will pass a pin made of the same wire through the pre-drilled hole and fix it by bending it.
We will put heat shrink on this place and use a hair dryer.
The flexible grip is ready.
For convenience, you can glue round pieces to make it convenient to work.
Now, with the help of such a useful tool, you can get anything from the most inaccessible places.
Even the keys from the sewer, even a bolt from the bottom of the car crankcase.
Cleaning the sewer drain is also not a problem.
