PEPPERMINT TWIST - Twisty Candy-Cane Bauble
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Twisty peppermint bauble: opens into a candy-cane spiral, locks round with a gold finial. Print in place, no supports.
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Model information
- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Winter & Christmas & New Year's
- License
- Standard Digital File License
Pull the cap. It twists open into a candy-cane drop.
PEPPERMINT TWIST is a red-and-white Christmas bauble with a secret. Lift the gold cap and the ball stretches and spins into a twisted peppermint spiral. Push it back and it clicks shut. It prints in one piece: no supports, no glue, no assembly.
Made for the tree
• A gold cap with a hanging ring, ready for any ornament hook.
• A candy-cane S-hook is included and prints on the same plate.
• It stays closed when it hangs. Even without the finial, a spring detent in every joint holds the ball shut, and one pull clicks it open. Hang it open and it stays open as a 12.7 cm spiral.
• Lock it shut. Press the gold drop finial into the bottom: 8 keys lock every petal, and it hangs as a perfect round bauble that cannot open. Pull the finial off and it twists again.
How it works
• The ball is made of 8 twisted petals. Every face between them follows the same screw path, so each petal slides along its neighbours while turning.
• Each joint is a T-lock: a T-shaped tab runs in an undercut slot behind two lips. The petals can only slide along the twist, never apart, and they stop after 12 mm.
• The bottom 0.5 mm of every gap is wider, so elephant's foot can't fuse the ball shut.
Two sizes
• 70 mm (79.5 mm tall with cap, 127.5 mm open)
• 55 mm mini (65.4 mm tall, 103 mm open)
Files
• Three colours (red, white, gold): the classic peppermint look with a gold cap. Perfect for AMS or a dual-nozzle printer.
• One colour: print it in any colour. Silk and matte filaments look great.
• STLs for both sizes (one zip per size), as one print-in-place file or as red / white / gold parts, plus the lock finial and the hook.
After printing: let it cool, then hold the ball and lift the cap gently. You'll feel small clicks in the first few millimetres, then it slides freely. Open and close it two or three times to run it in. To lock it, close it and press the finial's keys into the slots underneath.
If you like it, a Like helps a lot. Merry Christmas!
NEW - Bambu Lab H3C: PEPPERMINT_TWIST_70mm_3colour_H3C.3mf puts each colour on its own PrintTool (almost no purge), re-centred on the 330 x 320 mm H3C plate, with the official H3C machine G-code. Sliced in Bambu Studio 2.09.