This model is inspiered by various wood carvers vises available on the market. It currently accepts three tool mounts:
Eventhough the arm is held together by only one bolt, the whole assembly is surprisingly stiff and rigit due to some carefully thought out supports in impactful places.
Print Instructions:
- Everything was printed using Bambu PLA Though on an A1 using default settings
- Perimeters set to 3
- 0.2 mm layer height for all parts
- All parts fit onto a single 256 mm x 256 mm build plate
- Print everything flat, as layed out in the .3mf file to get strongest print orientation
Build Instructions:
- You'll need one of each:
- m5 x 30 mm inner hexagonal bolt
- m5 hex nut
- m6 x 35 mm outer hexagonal bolt
- m6 hex/wing nut
- Slot the two outer parts of the vise arm through the base plate
- Slot in the center reinforcement piece, mind the orientation
- Add the desired tool mount and fix it using the m6 bolt and nut. It only needs to be fingertight to be sufficiently secure
- Put the base plate onto the foot and add the clamp. Use the m5 bolt and nut to fix.
- Clamp the foot onto your worktable. Alternatively, it can be bolted in place. In that case, I'd recommend using sufficiently large washers
You are done! If you want to adjust the angles, just loosen the bolts.
I'd be happy to hear any feedback on the mechanism, possible improvements to ease of use and additional mounts to accomodate more tools.
I know that the geometry of the two armpieces is a bit odd and leads to a slightly wonky .stl file. I have not yet fixed this because my slicer handled it fine and did not have any issues cerating sensible tool paths.
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The author remixed this model.
Differences of the remix compared to the original
Adapter to use PCB holder and painting handle chucks using adjustable arm