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ALOW clamp

ALOW clamp

by GrabCAD
Last crawled date: 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi Everybody!

Here is my clamp design for the NASA Contest.
Basic idea - using wedges to block clamp around the handrail. ALOW stand for “A lot of wedges” ).

The clamp assembly consist of 3 parts: clamp itself, big wedge, small wedge.

First big wedge tighten the clamp in Y direction (Z axis is parallel to the handrail), the small wedge is used to tighten the big wedge and in same time tighten the clamp in X direction. Finally the clamp is blocked in Z direction.

The small wedge is released by pulling it. The big wedge is released with the use of small wedge inserted in the hole at the opposite side of the big wedge..

The 3dprinting build direction is Z axis.

Will continue to improve the design.

!UPDATE!

Alow Clamp Mk2 a new improved design files were added. This last design is targeted to support higher loads.

The 3D printing build is as always in Z axis directon.

Ivan

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