Cymbal Sleeves

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After wrapping up a recording session with my band just a few days ago, our drummer asked me to create some new cymbal sleeves for his fresh new cymbals since his old ones were worn out (see pics). Having matching new gear seemed like a great idea and him getting to Guitar Cemetery was a real pain in the butt. So I took a look at the sleeve and figured it would be easy enough to measure and model in Fusion 360. What he gave me was a simple smooth bore cymbal sleeve with a base that's 35mm wide, 25mm tall, and has an 8mm hole (actually modeled at 8.30mm) with an outer shaft width of 12.05 so the cymbal slips over it. I quickly modeled that in Fusion 360 in about 20 minutes, printed it out, and decided to install it to check fitment. I removed one of his crashes and discovered that this cymbal stand had a totally different sleeve - 40mm wide, 30mm wall, same hole size, and outer shaft width. He actually needed that extra 5mm height on that one, so I edited my model in Fusion with the changes, printed again, and tested fitment once more. It fit fine, but then I looked closer at the old sleeve I had taken off and noticed it also had internal threads on the upper end of the shaft! Why I didn't notice there were threads when I took the old one off will be blamed on lack of coffee... So, threads it is!!! I Googled around for about 20 seconds and saw that the thread pitch was likely going to be M8x1.25, so I just went with that because me finding an M8x1.25 but in my collection of nuts to verify the size is highly unlikely... I edited the model once more to add the threads and some other mods to make sure it can be printed without supports, printed again, and tested fitment. Thumbs up!! I'm going to try and see if I can link a video or two of the installation and the print preview in my slicer so you can see how it looks with my settings. The images I used here are the well-worn black one and the one I printed in red.