Candy Cane Lights Aluminium Tent Stake Adapter

prusaprinters

This is for the candy cane outdoor decorations three pack available in the US @ Home Depot. As others have mentioned the stakes for these tend to break each year either putting them in or removing them. Where I live the rocky soil and usually frozen ground makes this guaranteed. So I decided to make something a little different. Instead of printing new stakes each year I took some aluminum tent stakes that I can purchased from Amazon and designed a plug to go over then that fits into the base of the candy cane. My stakes had a hole through them for a pull loop so I utilized that in the design to use with a cotter pin to hold them all together. I also exposed the stake a bit above the plug so hopefully I'm hammering on the aluminum instead of the plastic.I printed them in PETG with a Prusa MINI+, .2mm speed preset.We'll see how they last this year in the snow and ice.EDIT: After playing around with installation of them I decided that I would like the plug to be a bit longer. With this version, I don't think I'll need to shove a pin through the side to keep it attached either.