Fidget Gear Ring (that actually works)

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So I started off by downloading the gear rings from this person https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2850756, who remixed it from this person https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2105705. With over 1,300 likes, I figured it was a good one. Well, what I found was that the housing pieces wouldn't fit together properly because the creator didn't allow for any tolerance between the parts. Lots of comments said people were having to glue it together to get it to work. That and it seemed as though it was made for toddlers, and I couldn't fit my sausage fingers in the holes. Seriously. It brought back Zoolander flashbacks ("What is this? A center for ANTS?!?"). I recreated the housing for the gears entirely using Fusion 360. I also made it big enough for an actual adult to use. The original gears do work, but will have to be scaled up to 122% to fit in the housing properly. I might remake them in the correct scale eventually. If you didn't read this and print the tiny gears anyway, it's kinda your fault. I told you to scale them to 122%. TL;DR Original files no workie. I make better. Print two of the ring housing. Print one left gear - scaled to 122%. Print one right gear - scaled to 122%. It snaps together pretty easy and shouldn't come apart unless you really want it to.

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