Gimbal stabilized tealight holder

A Gimbal stabilized tealight holder with counterweight *PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION ON HOW TO CUSTOMIZE WEIGHT FOR YOURSELF*
8h 5m
3× print file
0.20 mm
0.40 mm
82.00 g
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updated January 19, 2023

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A Gimbal stabilized tealight holder with counterweight

To make this work for your printer/filament/infill: 

  1. Weigh your tealight, mine is 10g
  2. Open the “tealight seesaw 2 v9.f3d” Fusion 360 file and put it into your slicer.
  3. Cut the model in half vertically as to keep the ‘cup’ like so: https://gyazo.com/156873904ab8f46923b22b4b6eb5d342 keep note of your filament weight (make sure this is unsupported)
  4. Add your tealight weight onto the filament weight, in my case it was 10g
  5. Do the same to the counterweight end of the model or ‘sphere’ end like so: https://gyazo.com/25813c1bd691d1133629de9b709b0c00 Take note of this weight as you need to match it to your cup+tealight weight
  6. Reopen The Fusion 360 file and adjust the sphere diameter like so: https://gyazo.com/c0f4b952564fa18d50f5b12dc843b433 
  7. Repeat the changing, cutting, slicing procedure until you have a weight that matches your cup+tealight weight OR is more/less depending on how you want the tealight to be at rest (low, high etc)
  8. Print.

Proof of gimbal movement: https://gyazo.com/95953493cab5ceaf556bc76db0cfa31a (printed here in thermochromic PLA)

 

 

(The cup hinge will need a small bit of spinning to free it up)

(ridges may appear on the stand as they have in mine. The slope is something my printer does not have the resolution to print as it has a 0.2 nozzle not an infinitely small one: You can change the slope of the base like so:https://gyazo.com/15ba01425f9f984a48d57ff3e02836b5 )

 

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