Minicraft MB1012 drill press, customizable clamps and quick release by gadgetmind

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

If you have a Dremel 3000 or 4000 then go to the original or one of the remixes, but maybe consider using my quick releases (maybe with a washer between release and clamp.) If you have a minicraft drill, or any other drill that needs different clamps, then you're probably in the right place!
I wanted a drill press for my Minicraft drill and this requires different clamps to the original. I also wanted quick releases and couldn't find any suitable ones. I have provided SCAD files for everything so people can play. I haven't added the customizer headers as I find the thingiverse customizer slow and it crashes my browser a lot so I just install OpenSCAD on my machine. Feel free to add and remix if you like!
Note that the ring can be offset relative to the base in a very flexible way, and you can even tweak the angle by changing the rotate in the code, but going over the top will leave odd gaps as the code currently is.
You'll need to add this library to your OpenSCAD libraries directory.
https://github.com/JohK/nutsnbolts
This is my first vaguely serious bit of OpenSCAD so apologies for coding "style". The Minkowski in particular is very slow so don't go thinking that OpenSCAD has crashed the first time.
Enjoy!
P.S. I have now turned my brain on and assembled the lever as shown in the close up so that the force of pulling the lever down forces it against the nylock nut. So plain nut in the handle part that attaches lever to pinion studding, then a washer and then a nylock on the outside.