Category: Tools
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Folding Box Opener Knife
I saw a real knife like this online and thought what a cool design. So I set out to make an equivalent one but out of plastic hoping it would be durable enough to be functional. And, it is…
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Folding Door Wedge
When I am not designing and 3D printing, I am often doing work that frequently leaves me wanting to have a doorstop or door wedge with me. And, I have thought about it a lot – I wanted to make one! I wanted to create something novel, functional and convenient. This is what I came…
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Folding Scalpel XL
After creating my v2.0 Folding Scalpel I received quite a few requests for it to work with the #60 blade. I originally thought it did because I was misinformed about what a #60 blade is. The number 60 blade is huge (71mm long) and simple too big for the earlier design. So I have created…
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Folding Scalpel 2.0
At least for me, it is very common to design something that I think is pretty good only to redesign it later and then wish I hadn’t posted the earlier design. This is one of those. This folding scalpel pocket knife is very good IMHO. I made numerous design improvements that all resulted in simply…
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Desktop Scalpel Station with Auto Blade Extract & Capture
I have to admit this is one of those unnecessarily complex designs that border on a “contraption”. But my intentions were good… I wanted to make a fun desktop scalpel station as a kind of desktop widget. And, I wanted it to achieve the following:
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Tool Blocks
I always seem to have more tools than places to put them and those pesky hand tools that do not store well in a drawer are the most problematic. So I decided I needed to come up with a tool storage system aimed mostly at those hand tools like pliers, diagonal cutters, strippers, crimpers, etcetera.…
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Print-in-Place Folding Scalpel
I know, there are lots of scalpel designs out there and plenty of folding scalpels too. But I could not find many (if any) folding, print in place and no hardware required quite like this…
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LPE25 Variable Flow Valve
When I created the modular LPE25 Quick Connect Exhaust System I always thought I would make a blast gate for it at some point but was lacking inspiration. Then someone asked me for a variable flow valve and I thought… that would be so much better for this application. So here it is…
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Multi-Axis Calipers
I needed to measure the widths of an object that is greater in radius than the length of my caliper arms. So that was the first problem. But also the object I wanted to measure is irregular (like a wine glass) and therefore I wanted to know the width of the object over a range…
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First Layer Squish Tool
I always prefer things to be more definitive than subjective. To that end, setting the Z-offset and getting the first layer squish just right has always seemed a little frustrating. That is until I designed this First Layer Squish Tool. Print it and you can see what is the smallest slot you can achieve with…
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Hex Bit Tray
Stores up to 240 hex bits. Load it up!