This is a mechanical storage box I designed for a friend's card game, but it will also work well as a dice-box or small token container for many other games. The game it was designed for (Disastles) uses half-sized cards so this box will not fit standard playing cards (I might see if I can make a full-sized version eventualy).
Construction
Note: This project required glueing to complete. I used hot-glue as it fills some of the tolerance gaps and ensured a smother motion.
Image 2 shows the nessissary parts to fully construct this box (minus the 4 magnets).
The construction process is as follows:
Glue 'Center Ring' A and B together (Image 3)
Insert the 'Connect Gears' into the 'Top Ring' as shown, ensuring that the arrows point towards the middle (Images 4&5)
Insert 'Drive Gear B' into the slot adjacent to the connect gears.
Ensure that the arrow on the 'Connect Gear' remains pointing inwards and that the angle of the 'Drive Gear B' is approximately the same as the outer windowed wall of the 'Top Ring' (Images 6&7). The gears should fit snugly in the hole and remain there. You may need to slightly remove the 'Connect Gear', mate the two gears together, and then re-insert into the hole.
Repeat for the opposite side (Image 8)
Insert 'Drive Gear A' into the remaining holes in the 'Top Lid' (Image 9). Ensure the arrows are pointing inward.
Insert the current assembly into the combined 'Center Ring'(Image 10), ensuring that the feet of the gears are fitted within the apropriate holes on the 'Center Ring' (Image 11).
Partialy insert the current assembly into the 'Base', ensuring that one of the pillars of the 'Center Ring' is aligned with the Door on the 'Base' (Image 12).
Peer down the center of the asembly and ensure that the gears are properly aligned (Image 13). All of the gear arrows should be pointing inwards and the gears should smothly fit together. Fully mate the current assembly with the 'Base'.
Insert the 'Center Insert' into the current assembly (Images 14&15).
Attach the 'Base Screw' to the 'Center Insert Bolt' (Images 16&17).
Glue the combined bolt to the bottom of the 'Center Insert' via the hole at the bottom of the 'Base' (Image 18).
Align the 'Lids' to the apropriate gear heads (Image 19) and then glue them in place (Image 20).
Optional
Insert 4mm(diameter) x 3mm(thick) neodynium magnets into each 'Magnet Holder' (Images 23&24), four in total. Ensure that there are two 'pairs' of magnets (Image 25).
Enjoy your new box!
| Base.stl | 3.5MB | |
| Base_Screw.stl | 513.3KB | |
| Battlements_A.stl | 158.9KB | |
| Battlements_B.stl | 390.1KB | |
| Center_Insert.stl | 619.4KB | |
| Center_Insert_Bolt.stl | 604.4KB | |
| Center_Ring_A.stl | 2.1MB | |
| Center_Ring_B.stl | 1.5MB | |
| Connect_Gear.stl | 318.4KB | |
| Drive_Gear_A.stl | 776.4KB | |
| Drive_Gear_B.stl | 1.1MB | |
| Lid_A.stl | 453.5KB | |
| Lid_B.stl | 459.8KB | |
| Magnet_Holder.stl | 534.2KB | |
| Top_Ring.stl | 2.8MB |
