Radio gimbal

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Baseball post-season has arrived, and I love listening to an AM station located about 90 miles away. A very weak signal often improves when you move the radio around, turn it upside-down, sideways, etc., since the internal ferrite AM antenna is reoriented towards the station and/or away from electrical interference. So I thought this gimbal (2-axis) might be worth a shot. It can hold the radio in virtually any orientation. The largest part was too big for my Afinia's 5.5 inch square build plate, so I split that in two and welded the two halves together. Welds are very strong and clean, plus they're fast. Check out the detail photos, also this welding rod project for further info. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1807093 The radio is a Grundig G6 Aviator, it's a good little radio with good sensitivity and a good signal to noise ratio. High quality electronics means AM reception won't be improved much just by moving the radio around. The gimbal helps sometimes, but this radio really needs an external antenna or to be taken outside, away from metal structures and sources of interference. Files are in SAE format. On the off chance anyone actually prints this, and needs Metric, scale the files up by a factor of 25.4.