Compact bearing spinner can be used as a toy or a fidget (good for nervous hands) with following
You need four 608 (single-row radial ball) bearings. Cheap ones seems to be sufficient. Quality bearings spin better (SKF® shoud be the best). Brand is more important than ABEC class. Hybrid ceramic bearing bring incredible spinning time.
Where to find bearings?
How to prepare bearings?
I recommend to wash cheap bearings before use with fine-grained lubricant like WD40 to ged rid of factory vaseline and get lower friction i.e. longer spin time 20s+. Spray and spin the bearing few times guarantee the best result. Only downside is little bit noise when spinning. Sloppy wash brings some compromise.
Print 1x spinner body and 2x bearing caps for center bearing or 8x caps to cover all of them.
Recommended Print Settings:
Infill: 20%
Resolution: 0.2 - 0.1
Perimeters: 3
Solid layers: 3
Supports: No
1. 3:17 - Daniel Goee (odessa2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOE0dpjTfeI
2. 2:03 - Daniel Goee (odessa2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMT3iZAdrs
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