Ring Tube is an extended version of
Ring Necklace. Whereas Ring Necklace has 34 rings, Ring Tube has a whopping 426 rings (four-hundred-twenty-six). It is the longest tube of rings that fits inside a 3D-printer, printed as a whole. It also makes a frivolous world record as puzzle ring with the largest number of bands. In its solved state, the rings is 64 cm long. It is a size-12 ring. When scrambled, the bands are linked in a loop with a circumference of 1060 cm, i.e. over ten meter.
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YouTube video.
Read at the
Shapeways Forum.
Read more at the
Non-Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Please order a 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kit from Shapeways at this page (check with Oskar about dye), or
contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored and assembled sample of this puzzle.