Summary

No Lord or Lady of the Sea should leave home without their triple-tined symbol of sovereignty.

Use it to create wells, invent the horse, slay giants, or just as a handy walking stick.

If you happen to be a child of the Sea, or a mere mortal, well... you could use it for cosplay or as a handy walking stick! (This one is probably not very good for spear-fishing.)

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

MakerBot

                                            <p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong>                     <div><p>MakerBot Replicator (5th Generation)</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting rafts"><strong>Rafts: </strong>                     <div><p>Yes</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong>                     <div><p>Yes</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting resolution"><strong>Resolution: </strong>                     <div><p>High</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong>                     <div><p>Default</p></div></p>                                                        <br>                        <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong>                    </p><div><p>Print three of the tines with the tip of the tine on the build surface, and the outside curve pointing up.</p><p>The hub and cap pieces should be printed with the dowel rod opening facing down; no support structures should be created using default settings, as the roof of the opening is sufficiently angled.</p><p>Print any number or combination of rings that you like, for whatever arrangement you like.</p><p>I decided I wanted my tines, hub and cap in Glow-in-the-Dark, and to spray my dowel rod and ring pieces with golden spray paint. These are entirely personal choices.</p></div>

Post-Printing

Clean-Up

            <div><p><em>THOROUGHLY</em> remove all the support structure and sand down all rough spots.</p><p>Pay special attention to smoothing out the faces on the tine and hub which will be sliding along each other as there is <em>VERY</em> little wiggle room (for a reason).</p><p>Cyanoacrylate (super glue) works well for re-affixing the little parts of tine which may break off during cleanup.</p></div>                <p class="detail-image"><img src="https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/95/29/6b/af/d6/20160623_115244.jpg"></p>            <p class="detail-caption"><strong>(I ran out of Glow-in-the-Dark on my last print, which included the hub and cap, and switched to transparent blue for the tops of those parts; it actually came out pretty nice!)</strong></p>                <p class="detail-title"><strong>Gather parts</strong></p>            <div><ul><li>1 1.25" dowel rod of arbitrary length; I chose 6'.</li><li>1 hub piece</li><li>1 cap piece</li><li>3 tine pieces</li><li>Some ring pieces (optional; I only used 2 small and 1 medium rings due time)</li><li>Fasteners (small wood screws would be best; I made do with machine screws)</li></ul></div>                <p class="detail-title"><strong>Assembly</strong></p>            <div><p>The hub and cap shapes are designed to slide onto the end of a 1.25" wooden dowel rod and be fastened in place with small wood screws. Any rings should be slid on in the desired order before fastening the ends on.</p><p>The tine shapes are designed to (after the <em>thorough</em> removal of support structure and a good sanding) barely slide into the hub piece after that's been fastened to the dowel, and should stay firm by friction alone.</p></div>                <p class="detail-image"><img src="https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/69/8e/60/a1/76/20160623_164802-forThingiverse.jpg"></p>            <p class="detail-caption"><strong>It's time to cosplay!</strong></p>

Lessons Learned

I need to experiment more with the joints between pieces. An awesome way to break free of some of the constraints of the printer. Getting these to fit just right is more difficult than I expected, and I finally settled for good enough due to time constraints.
Don't trust the material usage estimates in MakerWare too much when you're near the end of your spool. Or do, it might come out looking cool anyhow.

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