I've played around with the idea of building my own 3d printer that would be 2 foot x 2 foot to print bigger rings in the flexibeam style that doesn't break down into as many pieces, but I'm still a ways off from doing that. There are printers big enough in the CR-10 range that can print up to 20" but not enough people have those that provide a 3d Printing service at a decent rate. I got a 3 metre length of the curtain rod wire and it was enough to make turnbuckles for nearly 8 rings, lol.īut the printers are getting cheaper and cheaper and the print beds are getting bigger and bigger, so I'd encourage the 3d Printing route if you're more technical minded as you can buy a decent 3D Printer like a CR-10 with a 10 inch print bed that is big enough to print out the kits with more pieces. The turnbuckles themselves are curtain rod wire and screw eyes.
I bought all of this before changed up their business model and kicked out everyone who didn't charge out the wazoo, so now one of these rings would cost several hundred dollars to make where as before it'd run you about $40-50USD to print one. The corner pads in TPE rubber were like $6 and the set of regular turnbuckle pads were about $20. I had ordered the 4 sided ring and the extra ring posts and a set of 4 rope ring posts as well but only got 3 of those and 5 of the 5 rope, lol, so I don't have pictures of a 4 rope boxing ring. At the time those ring posts were about $15 for the set of 4. For the boxing ring, its the same frame but with different ring posts. I sold my printers off and paid other people to print the rings for me, and it was about $80AUD(including shipping) for the 18 inch kit, and about $90AUD for the 6 sided. Well the 3D Printing was really the only cost I'd include because they took me about an hour each to design, after a few years of constantly fixing and prototyping.