Twisty Fidget Ring (Remix) by Kastle

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I had posted this remix on May 23rd, 2017, and I wanted to show some friends but it had been deleted. I'm adding it back on again, fingers crossed that it doesn't get deleted/removed or in some other way just disappear. Enjoy! I am...
So, I really liked the design, but I wanted something bigger that I could just fidget with using both hands. I scaled it up about 240% (using Simplify3D I used the manual drag to scale to the approximate size that I wanted). I had some minor issues with assembly because the holes in the ring body didn't scale equally to the size of the pins and gears. To make it all work, I used heat shrink to increase the diameter of the pins for a better fit in the holes of the ring body. They were still a little loose so I used some UV cure cyanoacrylate. I included a picture showing the UV glue under the UV light.
Note that there is an extra spacer ring that I added to fill the gap between the movable ring gear and the retainer ring and glued the 2 pieces together before slipping it over the end and gluing the retainer ring in place.
If you have any questions, feel free to message me.
Also, at some point I'm going to remodel the scaled up version to create snap-fit pins as well as add a bevel to the gears for smoother interaction between the gears.