New Printable: Gator Clips
I’ve been on a kick lately of finding cool, useful things to print with my MakerBot. The current way of running a print is to tape on a square of foamcore. Well, that can get tedious and it sucks to have to use another consumable in addition to the foamcore. Well, I dreamed up a design for a clip to hold the foamcore down so you can print. It turned out pretty nice, and I’ve been using it to do prints.
There are a few catches though:
1. You can’t print large objects (>80mm) as the head will hit the clips. Use tape for those jobs
2. They don’t play well with endstops on the Y axis. I don’t use endstops because I’m tough, but if you use them just beware.
It’s really trivial to print off 4 of them using Skeinforge’s multiply feature. If you lose them, you can just print out more. Awesome!
| Tagged with | 2 comments | |
2 Comments so far
Syvwlch
The penny just dropped… THAT’s what those were for!
Cool idea
LS Knight
I am very interested in all this. I’ve got to find out more (like the software end of things).
But anyway, why not design a clip that presses into the foam core middle so you aren’t size limited? A little hook on the edge to lock into the foam and a wedge design (sharp end high) should press down on the foam core as you insert/clip it to the base.