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The Making of The Pentultimate
Mechanism
Layout for Machining
Machining the Triangles
Triangle Masters
The Pentagons
The Molds
Casting the Parts
The Tabs
Assembly Jigs
Component Assembly
The Tiles
Final Assembly
The Final Result
Number of Parts
All Pages
Once all the parts and jigs were made, they were assembled with the correct size and length screw.

 

At this point, I discovered an error in machining, and realized that each triangle part was 0.13 mm too thin. The difference is very small, but the error stacks up.

Luckily, nylon washers were available at this thickness, so I used one between each triangle part.

 

Here you can see the spacing washers. If this had not worked, I would have had to start over.

Most of the parts slide onto the screw freely. Only the last 4 actually thread.

 

With the spacers, the triangles and pentagons line up as they should. What a relief!

 

Here, the first few triangle shards have been completed.

A week later, more were finished.

 

The pentagon stacks were assembled in the same way.

Pentultimate pieces can also be used to play Towers of Hanoi. Two puzzles in one.

Only one more pentagon to go!

 

Each pentagon gets male tabs inserted at one level.

They all must slide in at the same time as shown in this picture.

 

This pentagon is #2, with tabs at the second level.

 

 

 



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