Thingiverse
Magnetic nut starter/manipulator by hypnolobster
by Thingiverse
Last crawled date: 5 years, 1 month ago
Super simple little sticks with a 1x3mm magnet in the back and a hex of appropriate depth at the front. Sized so nuts go in and out freely but not with much slop. Makes assembly and disassembly way easier.
They don't make good wrenches, but most of the time you don't need a wrench for disassembly, and for assembly I'd rather use one of these to get the stupid nut started and threaded on somewhere in the finger-tight range and then grab pliers or a real wrench afterwards if it really does need to be super tight.
Lots of the inexpensive nuts we use in printers and maker-ish projects are stainless-adjacent and are lightly magnetic.Some are zinc plated steel and are normal-levels of magnetic. As you get into M5 and larger most of them are closer to real stainless and are non-magnetic.
These still work awesome on non-magnetic nuts, you just won't be defying gravity anymore.
I'll make a 2 and 2.5mm eventually, but those don't tend to be needed in stupid places as much as M3 and M4.
.step and .f3d files are uploaded as well.
They don't make good wrenches, but most of the time you don't need a wrench for disassembly, and for assembly I'd rather use one of these to get the stupid nut started and threaded on somewhere in the finger-tight range and then grab pliers or a real wrench afterwards if it really does need to be super tight.
Lots of the inexpensive nuts we use in printers and maker-ish projects are stainless-adjacent and are lightly magnetic.Some are zinc plated steel and are normal-levels of magnetic. As you get into M5 and larger most of them are closer to real stainless and are non-magnetic.
These still work awesome on non-magnetic nuts, you just won't be defying gravity anymore.
I'll make a 2 and 2.5mm eventually, but those don't tend to be needed in stupid places as much as M3 and M4.
.step and .f3d files are uploaded as well.