Old Style Windmill 3D Printer Model
The file 'Old Style Windmill 3D Printer Model' is (stl) file type, size is 1.1MB.
The file 'Old Style Windmill 3D Printer Model' is (stl) file type, size is 1.1MB.
This design is inspired by old windmills that were used to ground wheat into flour. I always thought they looked quite scenic and was surprised when I couldn't find one on thingiverse.
This was designed in Autodesk Inventor. I went through several iterations trying to find a good gear ratio until I realized two of the same sized gears would obviously mesh well. The pictures and video only show the top two layers and a different gear ratio.
Here are some videos:
https://youtu.be/sdCS0PC_TcQ
https://youtu.be/cmogc6ig7o8
As you can see, the gears don't mesh perfectly so there is some friction. Once the top is removed however, it spins quite fast. The model I uploaded shouldn't have this problem.
| Pole_1.stl | 621.0KB | |
| Pole_2.stl | 617.2KB | |
| Windmill_2.stl | 1.4MB | |
| Windmill_Base.stl | 547.1KB | |
| Windmill_Blade.stl | 143.3KB | |
| Windmill_level_2.stl | 1.0MB | |
| Windmill_level_3.stl | 657.1KB | |
| Windmill_level_3_test.stl | 680.8KB | |
| Windmill_Main_Wheel_test.stl | 1.7MB |
