Carbide Spinning Snowflakes

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These Spinning Ornaments are an Excellent Holiday Project, Combining Tactile and Visual Elements in an Infinitely Customizable Design. With Art and Physics Working in Perfect Harmony, these Spinning Ornaments will Create Truly Cool Patterns and Translucent Materials will Add Another Level of Visual Interest. Whether Used in a Classroom or an Etsy Store, you'll be the First to Have One, and They are Extremely Hard to Put Down! To Build the Spinning Ornament with Bearing, You Will Need: * M3x10 Button Head Bolt * 3x3x7 683zz Bearing * M3 Insert Nut (McMaster Part Number: 94100A110) Note: You Can Easily Change the Design to Eliminate the Bearing if You Want, Simply Place a 3MM Through Hole in Place of the Bearing Pocket Hole. Here's a Step-by-Step Guide on How to Assemble the Ornament: * Print Settings + I Machined this on the Nomad 883 PRO using 4"x 4" x .125" Acrylic + Double-Sided Tape to Hold the Material to the MDF Wasteboard + 1/16th Square Endmill + Feed Rate: 44 IPM + Depth of Cut: 0.019" * Overview and Background: Although these Spinning Ornaments are Seasonally Festive, they're also Just Fun to Play with, and there's a Persistence of Vision Aspect to the Spinning Disc that Could be Experimented Further by Modifying the Spoke Design and Count.