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Swatch Pin and Buckle - 3D Print

This post is about a small 3D print project.

Background

A friend asked me to help printing a replacment part (pin of the buckle) of a Swatch watch strap.

Design files

I've considered the two freely available Thingiverse designs:

Dorn für die Flik Flak Uhr von Swatch

Flik Flak Buckle and Pin

out of which I've used the pin from the first one.

Prints and results

I have printed 12 samples, using the PC - strongest - filament, from Prusa 1.

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Figure 1: White printed parts, with broken blue original and manually carved trial sample
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Figure 2: Printed part in action

The results are satisfying, considering the costs 2 and the fact that Swatch does not provide neither pin nor buckle replacement, only full strap replacement.

Summary

In case of need of a pin replacement, feel free to contact me on the above links.

References

Footnotes:

Author: Zsombor Lázár

Date: 2021-06-01 Tue 00:00

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