Cymbal Sleeves

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After finishing up a recording session with my band a few days ago, our drummer asks if I could model and print up some replacement cymbal sleeves to use with his new cymbals as his current sleeves were worn out (see pics). Having fresh new stuff with fresh new cymbals seems like a great idea and him getting to Guitar Cemetery is a pain in the butt so I looked at the sleeve and figured it would be easy enough to measure out and model in Fusion 360. What he gave me was a simple smooth bore cymbal sleeve with a base 35mm wide, 25mm tall with an 8mm hole (actually modeled at 8.30mm) with an outer shaft width of 12.05 so the cymbal slips over it. I modeled that in Fusion 360 in about 20 minutes, printed and decided to install it to check fitment. I whipped off one of his crashes and discovered that this cymbal stand had a totally different sleeve - 40mm wide, 30mm wall, same hole size and outer shaft width. He actually did need that extra 5mm height on that one, so I edited my model in Fusion with changes, printed and again tested fitment. It fit fine, but then I looked closer at the old sleeve I had taken off and noticed it also had internal threads on the upper end of the shaft! Why I didn't notice there were threads when I took the old one off will be blamed on lack of coffee... So, threads it is!!! Googled around for about 20 seconds and saw the thread pitch was likely going to be M8x1.25 and figured I just go with that because me finding an M8x1.25 but in my collection of nuts to verify the size is likely impossible... Edited the model once more to add the threads and some other mods to makes sure it can be printed without supports, printed and tested fitment. Thumbs up!! I am going to try and see if I can link a video or two of the installation and the print preview in my slicer so you can see how it looks with my settings. :D The images I used here are the well worn black one and the one I printed in red.