HAND-CRANKED FLIP MONITOR

Dwight's Desk

The assistant to the regional manager's desk in miniature. Turn the pencil sharpener's crank and twenty pictures from the show flip across his old CRT monitor, one click at a time, while his bobblehead nods on top.

You need
The six plates in dwights_desk_sliced.3mf (about 15 h, 522 g of PLA). Black, white, yellow, blue and red PLA, and a latte brown for the desk. Nothing else: no screws, glue, wires or batteries.
Good to know
Every part presses, slides or clicks together, so it all comes apart again. The desk is 240 × 160 mm; the set stands 171 mm tall. Optional: dwights_desk_fit_test.3mf checks the crank, sharpener and foot fits first.

Assemble

  1. 1Load the spool

    Step 1: Load the spool

    Set spool A disc-down on the loading stand's pin (plate 4). Drop flap N into the slot just right of number N, the top half of picture N facing the number. Press spool B down the tube, lip up, until it stops on the tube's end. Its funnelled holes catch all 20 tabs. Lift the loaded spool off the stand.

  2. 2Spool into the chassis

    Step 2: Spool into the chassis

    Tilt the loaded spool into the chassis: spool B's tube over the stub on the far wall, spool A at the divider's round hole.

  3. 3Axle and ratchet

    Step 3: Axle and ratchet

    Push the axle into the pawl bracket, turning it until the teeth slip past the pawl. Feed its D-shaped tip through the divider into spool A and press the bracket's two pegs into the divider's two small holes. Turn the axle by hand: it clicks once per picture going forward and refuses to turn back.

  4. 4Into the monitor

    Step 4: Into the monitor

    Slide the chassis into the monitor from the back until it clicks over the ridge on the floor.

  5. 5Sharpener and crank

    Step 5: Sharpener and crank

    Press the pencil sharpener's two pins into the two holes in the monitor's crank side. Push the crank's long hex peg through the sharpener and the side into the axle's socket. Turn it a little until it drops home.

  6. 6Onto the desk

    Step 6: Onto the desk

    Put the foot into its oval pocket at the back of the desk, pins up. Lower the monitor onto the foot's pins until it seats.

  7. 7The bobblehead

    Step 7: The bobblehead

    Push the hair onto the head's top peg. Rest the head loose on the body's neck peg and set the bobblehead on the monitor's roof. Tap the head: it should nod.

  8. 8Dwight's things

    Step 8: Dwight's things

    Everything sits in a shallow pocket: the keyboard in front of the monitor, the mousepad and mouse by the crank, the nameplate, phone, ream, Dundie, Jell-O stapler and pencil in their places on the desk.

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