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Buckets jam for two reasons: the tapered walls wedge together like a Morse taper, and the trapped air pocket forms a vacuum seal. Fix both:

1. Stacking lugs (kills the wedge). Mold 3–4 small bumps or ribs on the outside wall, partway down. When nested, the upper bucket's rim lands on the lower bucket's lugs instead of wedging wall-to-wall. Contact is on hard stops, not friction surfaces — they lift apart freely.

2. Vent path (kills the vacuum). The lugs already create a gap, but add shallow vertical grooves inside the rim or a stepped rim profile so air can flow into the cavity as buckets separate. No suction, no pop.

3. Dual-angle taper (optional refinement). Steeper draft angle (~5–7°) on the lower half of the wall than commercial buckets use. Steep tapers can't self-lock — same principle as why a 45° cone never jams but a 2° one does. https://thespiritualmachine.blossom.band/f55e151a7989c18dc018b99086f549001c55e03e55746aa4dc42292a6f7eaf01.jpg The key insight: separation force must exceed friction. Lugs convert the joint from a friction fit to a hard-stop fit, and the vent kills the pressure differential. Commercial versions of this exist (some paint pails use rim steps), but lugs + vents together are the robust solution. If this is for 3D printing, lugs are trivial to add and cost nothing in print time.

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