Today we went from “random pile of gears on the table” to “an actual clock”! #3dprinting #BrianMakesAClock

Oh hey, we accidentally made a nice triadic color scheme! #BrianMakesAClock #3dprinting

the kid and I made some good progress today. Colored the faces with crayon rubbing and assembled a couple more parts of the gear chain! #BrianMakesAClock

Victory! ✌️ #BrianMakesAClock

for comparison’s sake, here’s the same model with too-high and too-low expansion settings. Too much adjustment leads to holes and structural issues, while too little means that all of the dimensions of the gear are too big in the horizontal planes.

Wellllll these adjustments don’t appear to have worked. Super stringy. I probably need to back off the material expansion settings! This is supposed to have a 11-tooth gear post on top too, but it completely failed to print. #BrianMakesAClock

good news: screws fit perfectly in the ratchet and pawl. Amazing clicky noise but I can’t get a video uploaded for some reason? #BrianMakesAClock