Is there anything more frustrating
than needing a very specific tool to finish a fix or a project, only to
discover that you can't get it in time? Well stick around because in this
video I'm going to share with you my top 28 ish 3D printed tools as well as
tips for printing them, what they're used for and why I love them so much. Let's dive in. Hey everyone, and welcome back to
the next layer, the channel that is 100% dedicated to scratching
your itch for making new stuff. Using 3D printing in my recent video
on 50 plus useful things that you didn't know you could 3D print. I asked you all to comment if you'd
like to see a follow up video, all about 3D printed tools and
the response was overwhelming. I love getting feedback
and audience participation. So to make good on my promise and maybe
encourage you all to keep sending me requests for videos in the comments below,
here it is my top 28 ish 3D printed tools. Oh, and stick around to the
end because I definitely saved the best for last on this one. Let's start out with these unassuming
little guys because they have a really cool story and they actually beautifully
articulate why 3D printing is so cool and so unique for creating tools. These are called bench dogs, and where
I live, I don't have a lot of space to do work and projects, so I have this
great folding table from Stanley Fatmax. The only problem is
this folding table and. Tables like it that you would use
for work on wood or other projects are made in America and therefore
they have imperial measurements. I live in Israel. Nothing has imperial measurements, and so
I had no way of finding these bench dogs. I tried to find them online and they were
like 30 or $40 for a few pieces of plastic plus shipping from abroad For a while. I used different pipes or
dowels and just jammed them in. Then I got a 3D printer, and now
I can run off as many of them as I want, and they fit perfectly. Here's another tool you
never knew you needed. It is called a speed square
or a carpenter square. I originally discovered this because
I just needed a perfect 90 degree angle for being able to draw straight. And get perfectly square cuts of wood. But then I discovered a speed
square and it turns out this has way more uses than just that. Now, check out YouTube on this because
there are tutorials and I only know about half of the features, but you
can see here, and I'll do some B shots. You can see that this helps you
mark different angles on the wood besides just 90 degrees. If you wanted to get a 45 degree,
You can do that if you wanted to get various different angles, but one of
my favorite ways to use it is actually for marking out pieces of wood. For example, if I want a four centimeter
strip, I can use this punch right into four centimeters here, and then use
that flat edge to just draw across the piece with a sharper pencil than this. And get a four centimeter marking. These are really, really cool. You can print them in P E T G because
you will knock them off the table. But again, make sure that your stringing
settings are very, very dialed in and that your p e TG is dry so that you can clearly
read the markings on the speed square. Here's one that's absolutely essential. If you like me, are a gridfinity
acolyte and love to keep your screws super organized. You know how when you finish a project
you have all these loose screws kicking around and some that you didn't use? Well, this tool basically
lets you measure exactly. Diameter they are and what length
they are incredibly quickly so that you can put them back in
their rightful place right away. Now this tool is cool and all, but there's
actually a new and improved version that I have not yet printed out, which will
also measure the nuts and bolts for you, and also your washers all in one panel. So check that out. It might be a better print than this one. By the way, it probably goes without
saying, but changing the color of the filament right way through the print
at the appropriate layer is something you can do in your slicer, and you
definitely should do so that you can actually read the lettering on this thing. This is another one that you need to print
with two different colors of filament, but which you will find endless uses for. Given how small it is, it's a
surprisingly useful print, and it is called a fill it gauge. Now, I didn't know what a fill it was
besides something that you put on the barbecue, but it turns out that a fill
is a rounded corner, and if you want to design things for the stuff around
you in your life, such as a phone, Or try to create a bracket for your
keyboard or mouse or anything else that has a rounded corner in your life. You are going to need to know what
the radius of that fill it is. And this tool does
exactly that in seconds. And if you do enough designing
in your day-to-day life, you can actually download a key chain version
of this, which is much smaller. And even the one that. Has a key chain hole, helps you from
losing your keys, but also comes in handy anytime you want to design something
that has rounded corners, which is pretty much everything around us. All right, let me now bring you
guys into the tool shed where I have designed a whole menagerie
of different tools and tool. That come in use every single
day, including, but not limited to these battery holders. For my Makita drills, these
are really, really great. I printed them off I think in just basic
pla, I have spots for charged batteries and batteries that are not charged. I actually even managed to find a
holder for my Makita charger, which allows me to mount the charger here,
and I printed a nice little cable wrap. But what's cool about this is I can
pop the charger off at any time. If I want to take it mobile, it pops right
out, pops back in, and I have my Makita charger mounted right to my toolbox. Now, I'm sure you're wondering,
Jonathan, all your batteries are mounted on your toolbox, so where
are you storing the actual tools? Well, right up here, I actually used to
store them in the toolbox and waste space. I'm now in the process of
converting those shelves to grid finity, because I have mount. All of the Makita tools, or nearly all
of them right on the roof, these were actually a flat bottom design that was
meant to be screwed into a wall, but I simply modified them to hook onto the
holes and the ridges of my arrow shed. You could use the original version
and just mount them onto a wall. If you'd like, I printed these ones out
in Asa filament because it has superior heat resistance, and the roof of the
shed gets incredibly, incredibly hot. Hot enough to soften pretty much any other
plastics except for ASA or maybe nylon. Now, if you're not a Makita fan boy
or fan girl like I am, don't worry. I have seen. Tools and options like this
for DeWalt, Milwaukee, Stanley, and all the other brands. If you have a modular system, you
can probably find many different options for adapters and battery
holders and grips and all of that for whatever tools you choose to use. These corner guides are just one
example of different guides that you could build, and these are
just for drawing out your corners. But you can also, if you happen to have a. Come up with routing bits that
guide your router as well, and I've done that just as well. Let's talk about clamps for a second. There are a lot of different
3D printed clamps out there. You've probably seen, if you've ever
looked at Prusa's website where they sell their ptg, their prusament clamp. This is a really cool
print that they give us. An example of the cool stuff
that you can do with p e tg. It prints them three. And snaps together. You might think that this would be
useless, but it's actually very strong. Really, really cool tool. Really nice for gluing together
your 3D prints and having just the perfect amount of softness. I also love that they're plastic,
so they're not gonna scratch the things that you're gluing together. And by the way, for those of you who
like me, create content, there is a remixed version of these that is so
cool, which has cold shoe adapter. So you can mount all of your
various different videography stuff using one of these clamps. Here's a pretty cool one. I used to always wonder how carpenters
drill those clean holes to join a piece of wood without using angle brackets. Well, it turns out there's a tool
called a corner hole jig, and their entire kits that you can buy that are
adjustable, but if you need one in a pinch, you can just print one and
then take the clamp that we printed. Clamp it in and drill your holes Another similar tool that you can
print for angled holes is this whole guide or drill hole guide. I printed it in P E T G and you can
see my P E T G needed a little drying, but it allows you to print direct 90
degree holes exactly, or 45 degree holes if you need some 45 degree holes. If you bought a 3D printer with a carbon
glass bed, you probably got one of these. And then if like me, you upgraded to
a powder coated steel sheet or PEI coated sheet, you quickly realized
that this is not something you wanna put into contact with that. Ask me how I know. Fortunately, this is something
you can solve with 3D printing and you can 3D print your own scraper. P e TG is notorious for sticking too well
to the bed and actually taking a piece of the bed off, and this tool can help
you by using this chamfered edge to get right up in there and being soft enough to
actually not damage the print or the bed. Over time, the edge is going to wear. And for that reason, I actually am
probably gonna reprint this in pla. Here's a pretty cool one. You know how your drill bits, especially
your concrete drill bits always get dull. I discovered this really, really cool
print on thingiverse that allows you to re sharpen your bits, and I've since
found a better version, but I will demonstrate the old one and I will link
the better version in the comments. All you have to do, assuming you have
these wonderful Dremel diamond headed metal cutting bits, Slide it onto the top. It screws onto pretty much any Dremel,
including this fakey one I ordered on Ali Express screws Right on there. You can then adjust the angle that
you want to grind at, put your bit back on your cutting wheel back on. And simply slide the bit right in. So I've got a bunch more 3D printed
tools for you guys, but really quickly, I wanna share with you all a software
tool for your 3D printing workflow that is gonna completely change the game. And that tool is Obico. This video sponsor Obico, formerly known
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you to start, stop, and resume or cancel your prints, either manually
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free for basic users, visit Obico.io all right, let's get to the next tool. All right now out into the garden
where I have 3D printed, all kinds of cool stuffs, uh, that I've just been
too impatient to go find in a store. One of those such things is a hand
shovel, and you would probably think that a hand shovel made of plastic
would be really, really lousy. But this one's actually
really, really good. First off, it has a beautiful sharp edge,
which I've kept sharp by printing it in pla, which means I don't keep it out in. It's printed in two pieces so
I can tear it apart to store it if I want to save space in my as
you now know, over Crowded Shed. And honestly, it works
really, really well. I love it. I love how long it is. It's got a nice little hole. And, uh, if you need a shovel in a pinch
like I did, and you're too lazy to go out and buy one, well go ahead and print it. If you have holes in your life
that you want measuring for to know what kind of drill bit you
need, then you should definitely check out this very quick print. It is a hole measuring tool, and
it will tell you the exact diameter of any hole you stick it in. So for those of us who don't
yet have the wonderful E3D Revo nozzle, Hint, Hint, E3D. Anything we can do to make that process
easier and take steps out of it is better. I found that it was really frustrating
for me to need to lift the entire hot end all the way up to change the nozzle,
and fortunately, I found this little guy. It's a super, super short adapter
for the socket that allows me to only lift the nozzle a little
bit and then simply twist it. And bring it out. It's still kind of a pain in the butt
to change nozzles, but now using this, I find it's a lot faster and easier
than waiting for the Z axis to go all the way up and all the way down every
time I want to change the nozzle. Oh, here's one other one that I
printed but actually lost somewhere, A sanding setup or a handle. I don't know the name of this tool,
but basically it holds your sandpaper. And what's cool about 3D printing
them is you can 3D print them in any size that you want. They're really, really fast to print
and assemble, and then you don't have to hold the sandpaper and risk burning your
hands or just tiring out your fingers. So recently we are in the process of
potty training, my little boy, and so I decided to build him this custom
made beautiful bamboo stepping stool, which even slides in which I did using
my router and is made of this gorgeous reclaimed bamboo that I put so much
effort into maintaining the nice. Beautiful surface, only one problem. I vastly overestimated how accurate
I could be with the drill and ended up drilling right through
it in not one but two places. But there's actually a solution for this,
and it is called a drill stopper, which limits how deep you can go with the drill. For the sake of durability, you probably
wanna print these in P E T G, which is less likely to break with the flexing that
this entails, But because it has so much retraction going on, you're definitely
gonna wanna dial in your settings. And also, unlike me, you're gonna wanna
dry your P E T G filament before you print these out, and your drill bit is fixed. You probably also should do a random
seam so that the seams and weak points aren't all on one part of the print. Now here's one that I actually
debated including because I've had a lot of difficulty with it. It's a bit holder for your drill, and
I have tried printing this out in ASA. Abs, P P E T G, and even tpu. And I still haven't found a model
that works well enough that I don't break it after time, but I haven't
given up because I love this idea. And Makita does provide, and
all these drill manufacturers do provide bit holders. So I know there's a way to do it, that it
doesn't break, and I'm gonna try another model and let me know in the comments
below if you find a model that works well because this is such a useful thing. And I'm in the process of printing one
with magnets in it, which is even better than the original drill bit holder. Because who wants to walk around
with only the bits that you can fit in the drill itself? I'm gonna be completely honest
and admit that I did not know that a glue spreader was a thing
until I watch yet another video. I feel like I mention him in just about
every video by Alexander Chapel, who used a glue spreader to make sure that
he had perfect distribution of the glue on the piece that he was working on. Turns out that there are
different densities of glue spreaders for different projects. So print as many of these as you
want and use it to distribute your glue as well as you would like. Hose fittings and vacuum adapters really
could be a category all their own. I've printed out specialized adapters for
drilling into walls so I don't muck up my. And can use it with my shop vac,
but the really cool print and killer app here was printing an adapter to
match my shop vac to the Makita size hose, which is not the same size and
printing it with an angle bracket. Just make sure that you print this one in
P E T G because well, things tend to get real hot in the tool shed or in the sun. And yeah, this one melted. Up next, we're gonna get a little bit made
up because this is actually a 3D printed tool to aid your 3D printing workflow. For those of you who've never seen
one of these things, it is called a deburring tool, and it is basically
a tool for cleaning up your 3D prints more easily and getting rid of all. Nastiness on there. Of course you can buy these tools
on Ali Express or Amazon, and there are nicer ones such as metal ones,
but I use the plastic cheapy ones cuz I like to have 'em everywhere. And at some point I realized that I
can just 3D print them just as easily and then just buy the replacement .
Knife cutter thingies and they
honestly turn out just as good. And frankly, I like my orange one a
lot more than I like this plastic one, by the way, that's a whole other video
that I could do is just all the various different tools and tricks I use for
improving my 3D printing workflow. There are a lot of tools I didn't
know I needed when I started out. Let me know in the comments below
if you all are interested in me doing a tools for 3D printing video. And if enough of you are
interested, I will definitely. This soldering jig is another cool one
to hold your pieces of wire at various different gauges while you solder them. But I did actually in the process
of making this video find an even better specimen for actually
soldering together those LED strips. This lazy Susan is a really,
really cool design and it was a lot of fun to print and assemble,
but it is not fully 3D printed. In fact, you need to have some bearings
and screws and stuff, and that's actually a really, really good idea for another
video that I've been meaning to do. See, when I started 3D printing,
I had no idea how many different accessories, bolts, nuts, bearings. Let me know in the comments below if you'd
be interested in seeing a video where I just give you a list of all the things
that I recommend you order on Ali Express or Amazon to just have in case you need
them in future 3D printing projects. Things that are really, really
good to just have on hand for your future 3D printing projects. It also meant I had to move some
filament off of another spool so that I could empty out the Prusament spool. And I don't know about you, but I hate
ending up with little bobs and bits. So I wanted to merge
that onto another spool. So what I ended up doing was downloading
and printing this awesome filament welder, which allowed me to put that
same filament on another spool that I. So I didn't have another
couple meters kicking around. So there you have it. My top 20 eightish 3D printed tools. Please remember, this is a very,
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