From the Loftsmith Workshop

Spiral spinner fidget wand, print-in-place

A little wand for restless hands. Push the twisted shaft and the snowflake-tipped top whirls around, then slows down and stops. It prints already assembled, with a ribbed grip at the bottom. Change the number of snowflakes or how big they are.

2 parts · 23 g · 79 × 79 × 167 mm

by Loftsmith Workshop

Purple twisted wand with a ribbed grip and four yellow snowflakes spreading from the top
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Parts

  • wand · PLA · Upside down: it stands on its 20.4 mm tip foot (19.2 mm across where it meets the bed, after the elephant's-foot chamfer), braced inside the carousel hub. The grip is at the top while printing.

    Fluted 20 mm grip with a flared 29 mm standing foot, a 45-degree collar that stops the carousel, and a twisted rounded-star rod 16 mm across the lobes with a 10 mm core. About 16 g and 41 min at 2 walls/15%. PLA because it is a stiff, room-temperature desk fidget.

  • carousel · PLA · Rider plate flat on the bed around the wand tip, printed in place on the rod.

    Scalloped rosette crown with 4 snowflake riders of 24 mm (79 mm across overall) on a slim 21 mm spindle sleeve, 20 mm long, with a twisted bore. About 7 g and 15 min at 2 walls/15%. Its bed face is the top face in use.

Print settings

Layer height
0.2 mm
Walls
3 recommended (the page's stats line uses 2)
Infill
15%
Supports
None
Notes
At 2 walls/15% the build report estimates about 24 g and about 58 min. At the recommended 3 walls/15% it estimates about 31 g and about 1 h 16 min; the third wall makes the 10 mm rod core stronger. Print both bodies as one object, upside down, exactly as exported (the 3MF keeps the gap). The wand st

Assembly

  1. No assembly: the carousel is printed captive on the rod.
  2. After printing, remove the brim. Hold the grip and gently twist the carousel back and forth along the rod until it moves freely.
  3. Hold the wand grip-down and the carousel spins down the twist to the collar. Turn it over to send it back to the tip, then turn it upright again to watch it spin down.
  4. Between runs it stands upright on its flared grip end on a flat desk.

Good to know

  • The carousel's free running is calculated, not tested: the engine checked rigid clearance at 145 poses, and the 1.80x drive margin assumes PLA on PLA at mu 0.35. If yours sticks, reprint with a larger gap (0.5 to 0.6 mm per side) or fewer spins per run.
  • The gap that frees reliably depends on your printer and filament. Under 0.35 mm it may fuse on some printers.
  • The rod is 10 mm across at its thinnest. The check covers a 3 N fingertip push at the tip, not a drop onto a hard floor.
  • Standing on the desk: the check says it tips past 12.4 degrees at the defaults (10.4 degrees at the 120 mm run). That means a flat desk only; a bump can knock it over.
  • Desk fidget, not a toy for children under 3: the riders and arms are small, thin parts.
  • The two colours shown need a multi-material printer (AMS) with the carousel body set to the second filament. A colour change by layer height cannot separate them, because both bodies print side by side.
  • Run lengths over about 90 mm make it taller than 180 mm, which needs a 256 mm printer such as the A1.
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