Print Your Own Drill Guide Without A Linear Bearing

Usually we typically do not address paid out products and solutions below on Hackaday, but we couldn’t assist but be impressed with this 3D printed drill guide from [USSA]. Whilst you are going to want to pay out the toll to accessibility the STL files and ideas, there’s an exceptional video clip demonstrating a little bit of magic powering the curtain that you can verify out free of charge of charge. There are quite a few attention-grabbing insights and some excellent strategies place into this structure that any person could choose and utilize to their very own project.

Initially, what is a drill guideline? A lot of of us don’t have the luxury of a full-sized drill press, so we have to make do with a hand drill. There are many jigs and tips to get straighter holes, but it can be irritating to mark out threaded screw inserts with fantastic precision only to uncover all the inserts are at an angle and the circuit board will not fit. A drill guide assures holes are plunged straight up and down and at a trusted depth.

[USSA] starts by exhibiting the node-based CAD that would make up the layout (a application identified as Grasshopper). As he assembled it, straightforward nuts and screws held it collectively. But relatively than clamp two different parts with each other, the screws compress the single plastic with a clever slot in the facet to permit the plastic to flex. Various 3D printed jigs were employed for assembling the bearing shaft. Eventually the results glance pretty amazing, and it’s an inspiration for our have printed tasks.

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