For the most part, I love my house. Its fairly well-built and doesn’t need a lot of fuss or maintenance. Great “first house” kind of place. That said, there’s one area that’s just bad. Its not critical, its just dumb and that makes it even worse:

A photograph of two door handles touching each other when one door is opened fully.

Oh my god I hate it.

So, if you’re coming home from the store and are holding a heavy package: You paw at the garage door to unlatch it, then bump your way into the door to swing it open. This causes the two door handles to forcefully collide with each other.

Ugh.

So I made two stupid circles and stuck them together:

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Then I printed that in TPU and stretched it over the door handle.

Now:

A photograph of a door handle with a stretchy plastic “shock absorber” shape stretched over one handle.

A photograph showing two door handles. One with the stretchy plastic “shock absorber” and one without. The two handles are close, but not touching.

A photograph showing two door handles. One with the stretchy plastic “shock absorber” and one without. The door handles have almost collided, but the stretchy plastic “shock absorber” is compressed and the door handles themselves never touch.

BOOP!

Where to get it

These models are so simple and pretty specific to my door handles that I didn’t want it “clogging up” my Printables profile. That said, it may be useful to someone in the future (that someone could be me one day), so here’s everything:

TPU Door Handle Slammer Stopper_v1.2.0.stl

TPU Door Handle Slammer Stopper_v1.2.0.step

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/816637436fcc2d5f54129eed/w/39832787685d43081fc2526f/e/952737fe94676df396d05dd3?renderMode=0&uiState=673d0b3b654dd43b335da0ce Source Document

License: Public Domain

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