EBELLS

eBells are made in a "cottage industry" style with 3D printers (Figure 7). This is a relatively slow process, as printing the components for one bell takes around 14 hours and the assembly process involves 36 components and a fair amount of glue (Figure 8). There isn't enough demand to make it cost-effective to use injection moulding, which would be the normal way of mass-producing plastic items - but also, 3D printing enabled us to refine the design based on feedback from early users... eBells is a not for profit trading partnership established by Graham John, Ben Johnson, Tim Hart and Simon Gay in September 2020... eBells are designed to have the look and feel of medium-sized handbells. The bell mouth is 90mm in diameter (approx handbell size 8C) and the bell height including cap is 70mm. The handle is 145mm giving an overall height of around 220mm. They weigh around 200g, and include a weight inside the mouth to help compensate for the difference between the density of plastic and..

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