Halloween Candy Chute 10 ft Trick or Treat Slide

Ten feet of orange-and-black barber pole that delivers candy from your porch to the sidewalk. Drop a handful in the funnel at the top, listen to it rattle all the way down, and watch it land in a bucket at kid height. You stay on the porch with your coffee.

No supports, no tools, no glue. Every piece has a raised rib on its collar. Line it up with the rib on the tube below and push — the stripe runs straight through the joint, every time. The bore is 125 mm the whole way down with no lip anywhere, so nothing snags, including full-size bars.

Let's talk about the filament

6.4 kg. That is for the chute alone.

Call it seven spools and about 70 hours of printing, which is three days with no interruptions. Add the stand and you are closer to eleven kilos. Somewhere around segment six your printer stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a roommate who doesn't pay rent.

Two thirds of those 70 hours isn't plastic, it's colour. Each segment makes 712 nozzle swaps, one per layer, to keep the helix going. Print it in one colour and a segment drops from just under six hours to about four.

Two routes, two sets of numbers. The 0.8 mm settings below are what the chute in the photos was printed at: about 70 hours and 6.4 kg, chute parts only. The 0.4 mm print profile on the MakerWorld listing comes out at 98 hours and 3.27 kg, and that covers everything, stand included.

This is a big-bed print

Segments stand 285 mm tall and the bell is 274 mm across. It wants a Bambu H2D or equivalent — 325 x 320 x 325 usable. Nothing here scales down gracefully, so if it doesn't fit the plate, it doesn't fit.

Start this weekend and you're a hero. Start on the 30th and you're the neighbour with one segment and a story.

What you get - 10 tube segments and an elbow - A bell that points down into a bucket, or a catch basket with its mouth at grab height — they swap - The top funnel, which takes the whole thing to about 10 ft 7 in - A collar wrench (print two) for when you pack it away - Two fit coupons, so you test the joint before committing three days to it - The stand: two printed PETG towers that hold the chute at 23.6 degrees with the funnel rim about 67 in off the ground

One colour works too. The 3MFs are built two-colour for dual-nozzle printers, but the geometry is identical in one colour and it prints faster.

Print settings (chute parts; anything not listed is stock) - 0.8 mm nozzle, 0.4 mm layers, 6 wall loops, 0% sparse infill — it's all wall - Supports off. You'll get a "floating regions" warning. It's a false alarm: the slicer checks each colour body on its own and sees the stripe overhanging itself, but shell and stripe together fill the ring at every layer. Turning supports on builds towers up the bore - Segments, elbow and basket print socket-end down — never spigot-down. Bell and funnel print mouth-down - Brim inner and outer, 8 mm - Cool Plate SuperTack at 40 C

About the stand. It's PETG and it's chunky — slice one of each part before you buy filament, because the hub, leg and head are solid blocks and the estimate moves a lot with infill. Hardware is ordinary: eight 1/4 in clevis pins with hairpins, eight M6 x 50 bolts and nuts, eight 10-12 in ground stakes, and a zip tie over each cradle. Every hole is modelled to size, so there's no drilling except opening the stake holes to 8.5 mm.

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Print it, remix it, share it, credit me. Please don't sell prints of it.