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Create a Wheel for a RC Car

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create a wheel for a RC car

What is the problem?

My 5 years old kid let his RC car fall in the stairs. Both back wheels are broken.

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Let’s try to make new ones.

First, lets take some measurements.

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The first model that does not work that well

Basically, I want a few cylinders with the same axe and a few boolean operations to combine then. To be noted that the pentagon hole is actually a cylinder hole with 5 dots as a base.

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First of all, the shape is actually an hexagon rather than a pentagon.

Second try and success: dig into it and make an hexagon

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The difference in color in just that the green filament is of poor quality so I changed when printing the second wheel.

Notes linking here