Self-bondage items on eBay - interesting finds

A predictable ice timer, I might be interested.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4339359023/...6f6404d1cd

Thank you for including the etsy URL!

That makes it possible to find this item in the first place.

If you try to find this by simply searching on "ice lock" with etsy's native search, you'll never find it. Instead, you'll be diverted to the endless garbage pile of artsy-craftsy crap that is an etsy signature, by the shitty native search engine that is also an etsy signature. It's so bad it makes Amazon search, which is infamously bad, look like it was coded by rocket scientists.

Has anyone tried this? I'm a bit worried by the 3D printed plastic lock aperture on the slim rectangular block that slides into the lock body. I've seen 3D printed plastic fail before. Yeah, on another ice lock. And that was only under more or less pure extension stress, constrained by the ice lock body.

And that lock aperture looks a bit thinly printed on the far end.


FYI: I've also seen 3D printed plastic cuff locking systems fail. Several times. This seems due to nothing more than plastic fatigue. The 3D printed plastic the various vendors use for these devices does not have the resiliency of spring steel. Sooner or later extension stress will cause the locking stem to slide to the "open" location by itself, without a key, then the affected cuff simply flaps open and that is that. Once this happens, I do not know how to reverse it, except by the kludge I outline below.

They can be shored up, by inserting several short lengths of rubber band material, cut to measure with a scissors, between the locking stem and the plastic just behind it. But in these instances, the original "out-of-box" lockup seems to be hopelessly gone.

If you try to find this by simply searching on "ice lock" with etsy's native search, you'll never find it. Instead, you'll be diverted to the endless garbage pile of artsy-craftsy crap that is an etsy signature, by the shitty native search engine that is also an etsy signature. It's so bad it makes Amazon search, which is infamously bad, look like it was coded by rocket scientists.

That's true. I found this originally using Google, Etsy search just gives you random crap.

I'm a bit worried by the 3D printed plastic lock aperture on the slim rectangular block that slides into the lock body. I've seen 3D printed plastic fail before. Yeah, on another ice lock. And that was only under more or less pure extension stress, constrained by the ice lock body.

And that lock aperture looks a bit thinly printed on the far end.

That's what I'm worried about too. But the approximated ice melting time and the lightweight structure tempts me give those a try. Especially when I think of chair bondage scenarios where I'd attach the lock under the chair/to cross stretcher etc. or when my hands are bound to the sides or above the head separately, the timer shouldn't be heavy adding extra weight to the rope.