3D printed hand tightened nuts

[Brad]

I am making an outfeed table for the table saw and want to be able to quickly tighten and loosen the nuts that will hold the legs in place so it can be removed for storage.
I generally dislike wing nuts and have a 3D printer so….

The photos really accentuate the layer lines. The nuts is a press fit but a little glue would help to really keep it in place.

 

[smokeywolf]

Nice Brad. Must be nice to have the latest in technology. Seriously, good to be building up your shop tools and supplies well before retirement.

Just for general info, they make a thumb-nut very similar to yours that presses onto the head of a socket head cap screw. Used them a lot for clamping non-critical parts/assemblies on slides, glides, rails an so on.

 

[fiver]

they make them with the printer for the Dillon powder measure.
kind of in reverse though, you slide the thingy over the bolt head.

 

[Brad]

I have one of those for My Dillon. Very pleased with it.

To me the key to the 3D printer is the design software so you can make what you can design.

 

[JonB]

I love 'em. The design on top is mesmerizing.

 

[Snakeoil]

I love 'em. The design on top is mesmerizing.

You're related to either Cheech or Chong, aren't you?

 

[Snakeoil]

I am making an outfeed table for the table saw and want to be able to quickly tighten and loosen the nuts that will hold the legs in place so it can be removed for storage.
I generally dislike wing nuts and have a 3D printer so….

The photos really accentuate the layer lines. The nuts is a press fit but a little glue would help to really keep it in place.
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Nice work. I'm getting more and more interested in a 3D printer. But I'm concerned that I'll never come out of the basement again. I have a possible project for you. Search StratoLauncher on the web. It's a water rocket that uses soda bottles and the quick connects for garden hoses. What would be nice to have is the femail soda bottle to male garden hose adapter with the ability to attach guidance fins. And of course the fins would be another project. I'm seriously thinking about making one of these just cuz I want to. I had a water rocket back in the 50's when I was a kid and it was about the coolest thing you could want for summer fun. They had big ones and little ones and of course, my family being all a half-bubble off got me the big one. If it ever hit you in the face when it launched, it would probably have knocked you out. But I'm still here so needless to say, it never got me. I'm surprised that they don't have the prisoners in China making them for the idiot Amurcans, of which I'm a proud member.