Spherical flexure joint Base

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A friend of mine asked me to print this…….

Spherical flexure joint 1 and 2 (original files)

Jelle_Rommers

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4841850

https://www.printables.com/model/1415783-spherical-flexure-joints-tetra-1-no-supports-requi/files

The model has no base.    It's as if it's meant to be screwed down to piece of wood.   

I designed a base and some peg rivets that seem to work well.   

I printed mine at 50% infill.   With bottom 12-15 solid layers.   Gyroid infill.   I did this because I wanted the base to be heavy.   You may want to add brim to the rivets.   I have a sliceworks flexdipped plate and everything sticks like magic so I didn't do that.   But you might try it.   

Assembly is pretty simple.   The holes almost line up perfectly but not quite.    This is good!   I was able to get two rivets to seat easily.   Then for the other two I clipped some of the shaft off of the rivet at an angle using the flush cutters we all have….   This made it seat as a friction fit…. as in no glue.    It worked perfectly for me.   

Standard base should work if printed heavy…..   Wide base for Tetra1 if you need additional support.   I actually clued the standard base to the wide base for extra height.