Building Blocks
Building derivative Things from Thingiverse is all about building up and off of someone else’s ideas. Little proofs of concept like printed ball bearings turn hardware dependent plastic spindles into designs for totally printed plastic spindles.
The above video is from a YouTube user named tapiocasunshine demonstrating a printed plastic spring to some slightly trippy music. A spring like this would probably make a decent shock absorber or handy low power spring to help with the magazine clip for a certain Open Source Disc Shooter. 
tapiocasunshine, if you see this, would you share these designs on Thingiverse?
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riche
If you check out his other videos, you will see that it was printed on an Up! printer. I think it’s a simple spring that is pretty easy to draw in any CAD program. I did some searching and it seems to be printed with support as seen on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03eO_h46i54&NR=1 . Has anyone tried to print something like this on a Makerbot?