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Steampunk Chess Set Remix for US Pennies

by Sarah R. · via Printables
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UploadedMar 30, 2023
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There's already a remix of this set that uses Euro cents as weights, but after pricing out similarly sized washers I realized I'd be much better off trying to make US pennies work. Scaling the other set resulted in pieces much larger than I wanted that also needed 11 pennies each - the result was heavy enough to be painful if dropped on your toes. Along the way, I resized the bases so that all the royalty pieces were the same size as each other - approx. 33 mm (give or take the little details on the sides). The pawns are a little smaller, with 27mm bases. I also fixed some internal geometry issues in the Rook. Each piece needs 4 US pennies (which will add 10g of weight), so the whole set will use $1.36 in pennies if you print an extra queen for each side. Print settings: Layer height: 0.2mm Supports: none (your slicer may complain there are large overhangs because of the penny cavity. That is intentional.) You will need to pause the prints at approximately 7.2mm to insert the pennies. It's best to add them one at a time and make sure they are fully flat before putting in the next - the cavity has very small tolerances so that the pennies do not rattle around in the piece.
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