Fidget Spinners

Assemble

First you will want to place the bearings in place over the holes evenly.

*NOTE* The bearings used for this project are common 608 skateboard bearings (These can be found at your local skateshop, sports store, or mega stores)

Making sure you are on a flat surface, lightly tap the bearings in place with a mallet or similar tool.

(This tight fit allows no glue to be used if you want to use transparent acrylic like we did)

Now moving forward, you can flip over the spinner, line the other half up, and tap into place as before. Also Seen on Next 2 Slides..

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After the main body is nice and in place, you can do the similar meathod to tap or push the 3 inside spacers into the center bearing.

Make sure after the center spacers are in place that they are equally spaced sticking out of each side.

Finally, you can take the rastered thumbplates and superglue them ontop of the middle spacers. (When running the file you want the raster to create some depth, but not too deep.

Well Done! Your simple fidget spinner is now done!

First start by inserting the the center bearing spacers. These should fit snug, if they don't push in a slight tap with a small hammer or mallet will do.

Make sure that there is close to an equal amount sticking out on each side. (this does not have to be perfect)

Now you will want to add the gear around your bearing.

Then you will want to add another gear ring to the top to add thickness. Glue in place once they are both lined up.

Then take one of your main brackets and insert your bolt through the center hole into the main center gear. Do your best to thread the main gear straight and keep it center of the bolt leaving just a small space where the bolt head meets the bracket.

After that is acheived you will want to glue the center gear in place. It is easy to see if it's in the proper area of the bolt if it is laying on a flat surface. Also bolting the surrounding bearing gears in place first will give you a good idea where it should be glued. Also Seen on Next Slide..

Now take the other main bracket and line up the bolts to the holes.

Then you will want to turn the piece around and tighten the bolts via allen wrench. Holding the brackets tight together will ease the tightening of the bolts.

Now you will want to put the center nut on the center bolt. tighten this down leaving just a little space between the nut and the wood bracket. Then super glue the nut in place.

Finally you will want to add the outer rastered thumb gears. This can be glued into place on both side. This gear is where you will hold the spinner as it spins.

Well Done!