20 December 2024
I thought I could make a 1" wheel just by folding and gluing a strip of paper, so I did an experiment. The strip was cut from a grided piece of paper, each grid is 4mm. So I thought perhaps 18 folds is sufficient and proceeded to do just that. I chose 12mm as the radius. Here's the result.
As you can see, the number of folds (19) is insufficient, next time work out the circumference and add some buffer, especially when the strip of paper has to be glued by 1 fold and this fold has to be the correct direction. I guess 21 folds is needed and so if a tube is to be glued to be the wheel hub, may 23, 25 or 27, i.e. some odd number.
Yes it is light, no it is not ideal. It is not 'realistic' and I don't know about its functionality.
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