I invented a better quick clamp?

do you want to turn your Workshop into a professional one buying stuff for the workshop can be really expensive compared to 3D printing and if you thought 3D printing was hard I'll show you it's not and these 3D prints will turn any ordinary Workshop into a professional one and the best part you can do it today I'll also reveal my best invention to date for the first time in this video it's a work in progress and I've already spent a lot of time on it but I think you deserve to see it that's what he said it actually works years ago when I got my first 3D printer I had no idea what they were capable of but now that I've been doing it for a long time I can tell you that there's been a lot of development it's become cheaper easier and a lot of the things I 3D print don't even access to buy the absolute best part about 3D printing though is that I'm able to come up with an idea and an hour later I can have it in my hand and that in itself is just mindblowing like this for instance even though this is isn't Workshop related well it kind of is This is my podcasting room and I have these headphones and I just placed them on the table right here that means less workspace so if I can mount my headphones somewhere else I could solve that problem well if you search one of the sites for headphone hangers you'll find plenty of files but that's not what I enjoy doing so I'll do a challenge I bet I can have one designed and printed within an hour let's go so let's make our ourselves a quick hanger I know it's shaped as a circle so just put a number in it's offset that by five and if I just add two screw holes that's the screw holes just extrude this entire thing cuz the thickness is like 40 so we'll go more go 10 more I say now it's 35 that'll do actually let's extrude five more like that I'll add my own face to this as a logo cuz I'm a narcissist and that's why I'm on YouTube probably champ for the screw holes a bit that let's also round over these Corners a bit that looks quite okay I would say all right let's pop it in the printer let give it a bit of strength slice print plate filament in that one black shoot let's go and now that's going to be 48 minutes of printing so I'll just wait it [Music] out now attach it to the wall hang the headphones up voila see how this is the best friend of any maker like how is this even possible an hour ago I didn't have a hanger for my headphones and now I do so there are a lot of people selling these magnetic dust board connections on Etsy and so did I for a while but I think most of them have a big flaw and I want to show you why I think these are better safer and how you can print them yourself and I'll show you exactly how I make them but first I want to show you some 3D prints I think are crucial to my workshop including an upgrade that turns your quick clamps into the perfect clamps and maybe at the end of the video you can tell me if you feel intrigued to buy a 3D printer so let's start at the basics say you do get a 3D printer nowadays you can get one for as low as $250 and upwards I've had a lot of different 3D printers by now and my go-to printer is the just look at the size of this thing I'm just kidding it's the bambo lab printers this is the p1p which is currently $599 that's more than double the price of the cheapest one but it's more than double good if that makes any sense it's been really reliable for me and I can just 3D print wirelessly from my phone or computer which is just great once you have a 3D printer you obviously need plastic I pay somewhere in between 20 to 30 bucks for a spool of 1 kilo filament and for reference this part uses around 75 G of filament which means I can print 13 of these on one spool of filament that means around $2 a piece in plastic now there are a bunch of different types of plastics to get and depending on what your print printing you can decide on that but that also means you need to figure out what type of printer you'll be using because not all printers can handle the harder materials I mostly print in pla or petg and for any beginners that's what I suggest as well both of them are easy to print and you'll have good results however they're both quite fragile and cannot handle extreme heat or bashing so if you're looking to print harder materials or other types of plastic you need to investigate the printer you're getting and make sure that it can handle those types of plastics once you have the printer though with plastic all you really need to do is get a file either online or Draw it up yourself and hit print online there are tons of resources to get files what I find really good about the bambo LA printers and this is unsponsored by the way I just love the way they work you can use the app find something you like and just hit print without going through a bunch of work for that reason I actually bought my kids a printer as well so that they could get into it so if you don't feel like drawing up your own stuff there is no need there are lots of great resources out there and if you ever feel like it you can learn the basics to draw simpler things later I usually go online to see if there are any files and it rarely happens that I can't find it but when that happens it's one of my favorite things to solve the problem myself so if you thought this was extremely hard it's not and the workshop upgrades I'm about to show you will fit your Workshop equally good as mine they're just made to fit any workshop and you can get them from my website now let's get into some of the actual upgrades you can do with a 3D printer this little thing this little teeny tiny thing can actually be really useful a center finder is great when you want to draw a line on the edge of your wood and in Center so what I've done is that I drew up a very simple one I have it on my printables in a couple of different sizes to download they're all marked with the thickness of the material you can use it for it's a 30 minute print and you can just have a bunch of them lying around the workshop if you want they are especially handy when you want to raise your blade on the table saw to half the thickness of your wood for instance when doing half flaps and of course the same goes for the router table or any other tool you can think of with a height setting they're also really good when you want to Mark a location for drilling holes for dowels for instance and the price of print printing one of these is around $1 or less and the ones I found on Amazon were a lot more hey hey what are you doing I'm sorry I I just wanted to 3D print the things you were talking about in the video and I don't have a 3D printer so you just figured you'd steal mine yeah well you don't have to because the sponsor of today's video is PCB way and they make PCB and PCB assemblies but they also do 3D printing and CNC Machining so honestly all you have to do is upload the file to their website choose what type of filament color you want and then have them make it and ship it directly to you oh okay uh thanks thanks yeah no problem mate anytime what a nice guy now now this might be one of my favorites of the entire pile of prints and if you ever want to do a roundover my preferred way is printing one and using that as a template the thing is I thought it was a bit of a waste printing a new one every time I need one so I made a base instead and that way I can print whatever size radius I want without printing an entire jig all at once say I need a 1-in round over I print the 1in version and it's a lot smaller than printing the entire jig itself I put that in it's a tight enough fit and then draw around my material cut the majority out with the band saw or the jigsaw and then do the rest with a flush trim bit and the 3D printed jig as the template now if you have a rectangular piece of wood like I do here you could do all the edges with the same roundover sand it using this 3D printed 90° sander that I downloaded from thingiverse which is an absolute Banger of a 3D print although it takes a while to attach it it looks 90° to me and it makes sure we get a perfect 90° when sanding the piece which is a pretty big deal especially for big tabletops this could be a trivet or a serving tray or pingpong bat with a hole in it I don't I don't care what you do with your round RS just do them another really quick print that I just love is this little thing I have a Bosch miter saw and a Fest tool dust collector since they are two different companies you won't see a dust attachment from any of them that would be like Coca-Cola and Pepsi collaborating on a new flavor it's just not going to happen well I made one that fits the festal dust collector on one hand and the BOS miter saw on the other that solves a problem a lot of us might have with just a quick print and if it ever breaks you can just print a new one that of course goes for all these prints there is really not much more to say about this print so on to the next one now I have an idea for project so I'll take you with me in the process of actually making it and it involves these quick clamps they come in different shapes and forms but they usually have some kind of rubber feet that you can actually just pull off and put back on so my plan is to replace these with something that would allow me to clamp in an angle say if you want to clamp leg pieces angled together you could do it with this so my plan is to take these off replace them with something else that allows me to swivel it well that's the idea at least so I'll start at the computer and try to come up with something I really think this is a good idea so um it's a total of 40 30 mm Gap by 6 there's an opening at the top so I'll put those numbers in after some more CAD drawing I had them printed assembled with some 4 mm machine screws and in only an hour I had my first prototype okay so the pieces are printed they fit together but unfortunately they're a bit sloppy I was going to put washers in between here but then I realized that's just hard with really tiny washers and big fat hands so um it's not snug enough like even this part is just too loose so I'll go back change the dimensions a bit and then I can have another go after doing even more modifications I had a bit ready to try so my main concern here is that I just won't be able to clamp them good enough but we can only try and to make sure it won't slip I've added some grip tape on it and I've also cut these pieces just to simulate a leg assembly so um I'll put them together see if I can clamp it it actually works I mean it works i' I've pushed quite quite a lot of clamping force and actually these pieces I was afraid they wouldn't hold but they seem to be quite steady as well that is amazing so what I'll do is that I'll upload these to my website but since all clamps are different sizes I'll upload the fusion file and you can go in and actually change the size of the part that actually goes onto the clamp then you can print and use them with any quick clamps out there basically to change the size you simply open the file adjust the width and the thickness of the first drawing and also how wide you want the opening of The Gap to be and that should just do it for other clamps as well but anyway these come off I can actually put put the original back on there and use the quick lamp as normal again only this one is really tight I'll do it off camera later I think this takes the quick clamp to a new level what if you want to use them in the other direction you ask well here it is that's still a work in progress but it works this is something I've seen before and I wanted to make it better this is a simple saw guide you attach it to your workpiece and you can saw at a perfect 90° and one of the things I think would make it better is to put magnets on it to keep the saw in place and also to put them on the inside of the print that way you won't risk them coming loose I'll show how it's done on the next project because that also involves magnet but once printed it looks like this you can see the magnets but when using it it will hold the saw next to the jig and you can do your Cuts without worrying about being off 90 before before I show my favorite print though I will show some of the other ones that didn't make the cut for this video but I think are still really cool for storage I have for instance 3D printed a bunch of boxes for this small parts storage organizing all my screws in the router table I have 3D printed storage for all my tools but also for my bits for hanging the drill I have this small hanger that attaches to the hanger on the drill which means I have all my drills stored on the wall not to speak of my sandpaper storage that in itself is an entire video basically but that works really good the tracks are on the wall with 3D printed Parts but also I have a 3D printed 90° cut guide attached to it now these are magnetic dust collection attachments I have them on all my Machinery that uses the dust collector and there's also one on the dust collector holes so the way they work is that they attach the holes to the machines with just a magnetic lock the way most of these are done is with the magnets on the outside of the print that way there is a risk of them coming loose and worst case scenario ruining my machines or the dust collector but it might also be dangerous having magnets coming loose around spinning tools so I've put the magnets on the inside with every other magnet's polarity upside down which means that all the attachments will fit together no matter what I do so the way I make them is I load my file into the slizer of the 3D printer and hit slice after that part is done I'll drag the preview slider down until I see the hole for the magnet just before the printer will cover it up I right click on the timeline and I hit pause then I can start the print and after a while it will stop and notify me it's time to put the magnets in it won't say time to put the magnets in but you get the drift so I grab a bunch of these These are n52 neodymium magnets which are the strongest and I also suggest you get these they're 10x3 mm thick I put one down into the first hole then I put the next one down the opposite way the only downside with this is that magnets are so freaking hard to separate you get your fingers get worn out really quickly but that's a pain you have to live with and then I go around the entire print putting down magnets and then I hit RIS zoom on the printer if you're worried they're going to magnetize to the print head you don't have to because they're already magnetized to the bottom of the print bed once the print is finished this is what I have the magnets are safe on the inside but I can still attach it to any machine and it's strong I usually have to twist them to get them loose rather than drag them apart these are for 100 mm hose and I just put the hose on and a hose clamp and that will keep them in place I even have a female adapter on my router table that I just attached the host to and that is just a short way of showing how you can upgrade your workshop with a 3D printer in my next video I will show something that I think is my best thing yet that solves a problem that would have cost me $11,000 until then bye

Channel: The Swedish Maker

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Keywords: The Swedish Maker, 3d printing, 3d print, workshop, 3d print workshop, 3d print workshop upgrades

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Length: 17min 53sec (1073 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 23 2024