Easter Egg Dispenser Egg

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The Easter Egg Dispenser Egg... is an egg-shaped container that dispenses small Easter Eggs (or sweets/lollies) out the bottom by rotating the top parts of the eggs to open a chute out the bottom. To use the dispenser, just unscrew the top of the egg from the center section and fill with small Easter Eggs and/or sweets. Invert the dispenser to screw back together while ensuring the dispenser is "closed" so none of the contents can dispense until required. While upright or slightly angled, rotate the top sections to allow the chute to open and an egg or sweet to come out the base... then enjoy it! Assembly is easy, particularly if you use a light lubricant on the joining/moving surfaces. Well-sliced and printed dispensers should result in the base and center sections being a push "snap together" fit that allows free rotation between the parts once joined... then do not separate again (...this could break the joining parts). The top of the dispenser can then be filled and screwed into the center section (already clipped into the base). The dispenser is designed to allow eggs or sweets of up to 35mm (max) in any dimension to feed out through a chute in the base of the egg. Just rotate the top two parts of the dispenser (screw together) to open and close the opening into the base part and out the bottom. It's a simple system... Although the completed dispenser is quite large because it is made up of three parts, it can be printed on many machines with small build volumes. As long as you can print X/Y greater than 115mm (i.e., diameter) and Z greater than 108mm (height), you will be able to print this. Fully assembled the dispenser is 115mm x 158mm. This is a fun and easy print, but it does take quite a lot of print time (will vary depending on the slicing app used and machine) because or the size necessary for a reasonable capacity of small Easter Eggs/sweets. A small amount of scaling down is possible, but too much will make the parts impossible to assemble. Scaling up should be no problem. Make your dispenser unique by printing the sections in your own preference of color. Translucent filaments are great with this design as you can see a small amount of the color of the contents inside. Please refer to the print settings instructions and images for additional information... and post images of your dispenser/s for other members to see. Note: If you like this, check out the rest of my fun and practical designs. Tips: Tips are not expected but are appreciated as they help offset my filament costs as much as anything else. However, as I live outside the USA, tips cannot be sent to me via PayPal.Me as that service is not supported in my region and this is beyond Thingverse's control. If you feel like sending a tip, please use regular PayPal and send it to muzz64nz@gmail.com, and to those who do, thanks in advance!