Swiss army knife Earring (movable parts)
Description
Instructions
Use instant glue and move the blades for a while so they won't stick.
ToDo:
-Coloring
-Add stoppers to limit turning
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Are the blades supposed to be hovering like that in midair?
Sorry about the bad pictures, but the blades attach to the axes and are then movable.
-The color rendering shows the assembled version with the blades out and in.
-The STL contains the parts seperate in order to print them on a FDM machine, it might be possible to print the whole thing in one piece via SLS if the gap tolerances are fine enough.
On the photo you can see the assembled (uncolored) prototype with the blade and can opener turned into a random position and the swiss cross upwards.
There is no limit for the blades yet (a little difficult to print at this scale) so the blades will turn all the way. This can be fixed by either making the sides a bit thicker and adding a pin to block the movement, or simply glue in a little wire or scrap piece of plastic.
Most earrings I make just need to be decorative and have limited functionality, like the working pad lock, which has no "real" locking mechanism but a simple construction that somewhat simulates this functionality.
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This is pretty great.
Also, welcome back. :)
Thanks!