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on 02024-09-05#3D-printing 12 tools: a parallelogram center finder (in which M3 bolts for use as pivots cut their own threads) for boards or square tubing; a square-corner center finder for circles or squares; a center finder for a drill press for centering the drill over round stock with a sort of indicator needle, also with a non-self-tapping screw tapping its own hole; a metric screw measuring gauge with both length and diameter, bas-relief labels colored with a sharpie; a similar fillet gauge; a lockable angle gauge for transferring angles; a lockable contour gauge (like a one-dimensional bed of nails, or a pack of cards, as one commenter suggests), with more self-threading bolts, M4 this time, and a cam lever for locking; a sanding block; tiny “paint cones” for supporting objects being spray-painted on points; the THWACK plastic hammer; a flexure-based tube cutter into which you screw a box-cutter blade, which makes “extremely nice flat cuts” on the ends of silicone tubes; a machine vises with a screw clamping mechanism; a Kant-Twist-style clamp. He also calls out things he didn't print, like a Dremel table-saw/disc-sander/shaper mounting, a hand-held drill guide for guaranteeing perpendicular drill movement, etc. #video #manufacturing #mechanisms #teaching-tech
on 02024-04-03