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Hey, look at that, I finally got around to posting my quick-print gear bearing design!
https://youmagine.com/designs/quick-print-gear-bearing#.VL9O0D3HqKA.google_plusone_share

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Beautiful work!

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I thought it was a new breakfast cereal, called Wheelies.

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing it!

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So, uh…just how many of those did you print?

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@Mike_Miller IIRC he’s mentioned in the past that he uses that as the test print and as a “demo print” whenever at maker faires and such. So yeah, probably quite a lot :slight_smile:

On a side note, is the link dead for anyone else? Think the site might be having trouble at the moment.

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@Jonathan_Foote ​ YouMagine has been a rollercoaster lately. Wait an hour and try again…

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Sweet, I’m still playing with mine! Much to my wife’s displeasure with the constant rattling! :slight_smile:

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I’ve always had issues with the original gear becoming one solid mass. Does this version help with those issues at all?

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That’s almost always overextension. I can print it in abs, haven’t had any luck yet in pla.

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@Justin_Nesselrotte since this version is modeled as the negative space between the gears, you can adjust the tolerance between gears just by changing your extrusion width. The flexibility of the single-walled print also makes it easier to snap them apart when they do stick. PLA is recommended.

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@Whosa_whatsis Found why the link didn’t work, thanks to someone that also posted a link… It doesn’t work without the www. https://www.youmagine.com/designs/quick-print-gear-bearing#.VL9O0D3HqKA.google_plusone_share works fine… Odd.

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Huh, I used their G+ share feature so that’s a bug in @YouMagine . cc @Erik_de_Bruijn1

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I took the liberty of designing some add-on parts to enable this to be used in place of Emmet’s gear bearing: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:646025

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I’m not sure I would trust the single-wall planets for anything more than a toy…

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<— Openscad n00b. Where if the function to change the number of gear rings on a plate?

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@Don_Grunloh Down on line 48, it creates a grid of them using a for loop:

for(x = [0:1], y = [1:-1])

To do just one, you can just remove that part, or replace it with this:

for(x = [0], y = [0])

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@Whosa_whatsis worked perfect, thank you very much

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@Michael_Safrin
fruity wheelies

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@James_Wise I got an e-mail about your reply… Taken totally out of context with g-mail hiding the “repeat” information in the e-mail, I didn’t know what to think LOL