BoltlessStave for Transfiguration Bustle's Length

This is part of the length changing mechanism from our project from Americas Greatest Makers. We have an Instructable that describes the kit in detail.

We initially used bolts to hold the parts together. But they needed to be cleaned up and then threaded after printing. Also when they were assembled you needed to tighten the 6-32 bolts just the right amount to stay together and not add too much friction.

The Boltless version no longer needs bolts and prints in about 12 minutes. The laser cut version takes about 18 secs.

At the moment of this writing we only cut in lucite which is a bit too brittle. 1/8" material like bamboo plywood or a more pliable plastic may work much better.