I've learned that I have a thing for 3D printing geared objects and decided to print CarryTheWhat's Rotating Skull Gears. This is a great mashup between Emmett's gear code and a Skull image by bothacker.
This was actually one of my first prints a couple years back, but my machine was not tuned well and it did not turn well. After having great success with Emmett's new parametric snap pins, I thought that this might benefit from a conversion to the new pin type, so I loaded the files into Tinkercad, plugged the holes and created the new ones that work with the parametric snap pins.
I made one minor mistake when doing the conversion. I used the standard pin size which was just slightly too long for the center piece. I did some testing and found that all I had to do was to cut off the tip of the pins that go into those holes. Long story short, it goes together well and works great! Just add a little of your favorite lubricant. I recommend either silicone spray or white lithium grease.
And again hats off to CarryTheWhat for the great design!
| cut_pin.stl | 39.6KB | |
| skull_1.stl | 107.7KB | |
| skull_2.stl | 1.8MB | |
| skull_3.stl | 147.5KB | |
| skull_4.stl | 522.0KB | |
| skull_5.stl | 67.7KB | |
| skull_6.stl | 141.6KB | |
| skull_7.stl | 62.6KB | |
| skull_8.stl | 188.5KB | |
| skull_center.stl | 261.1KB |
