exwafoo Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 Hi All, I mentioned in the build log 'Miniature Clipper' that I had made a rigging stand from Circuit Board Stand Offs or Spacers. I've been asked to elaborate what I meant by these. So here goes. These are a plastic spacers used to securely mount electrical circuit boards in an enclosure, ensuring that they are insulated from the case (if its metal) and to allow cooling air to circulate. They cost me about £2 on the web, and came in a nice compartmentalised box. This shows the pieces included. I think the thread is M3. Its a hard plastic, probably nylon. I got these originally to make a tool with swapable heads for cleaning the inside of a bottle and applying varnish on the sea. I only wanted to make one tool to suit different sizes of bottle. It ended up as shown below. Lengths of dowel, with the top being able to slide forward to work the hinge. The hinge was made from one of the plastic pieces by cutting and shaping as required to fit a flange formed on the end of the thicker dowel. A length of brass rod was used to make the hinge pins and the connecting rod.The brush was cut from the shaft and attached to one of the smaller threaded pieces with epoxy putty. Keeping it straight allows entry into the bottle without touching the sides, then the head can be swivelled to suit by sliding the top dowel forward. I filled notches in it to give a bit of grip. With the addition of extra spacers, then all corners of a large bottle can be reached. Smaller brush heads can be attached if required. The rigging stand was made by drilling a clearance hole in a piece so it could be screwed to the vertical section forming a right angle, and another had a piece chopped out to allow a small screw to be used to fix the SIB in place. There is enough friction to allow adjustment of the SIB in a couple of directions to enable working on. Rigging Stand shown below Moab, Onni, John Zuch and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James w rogers Posted March 8, 2020 Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) That is such a great tool design! Ingenious! Does it have a patent pending? would love one of those myself!😉 Edited March 8, 2020 by James w rogers Bernard Kelly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exwafoo Posted March 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Hi James, All Thanks for your comments No patent pending. Would not make any difference to a certain Far Eastern Country who would just copy and market it if they felt it would make money, like they have with so many other peoples ideas, Anyway, I've drawn it up and coupled with the phots you can build one if desired. The idea can always be adapted to suit whats available, Best for now Alan Onni, JesseLee, John Zuch and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James w rogers Posted March 9, 2020 Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 28 minutes ago, exwafoo said: Hi James, All Thanks for your comments No patent pending. Would not make any difference to a certain Far Eastern Country who would just copy and market it if they felt it would make money, like they have with so many other peoples ideas, Anyway, I've drawn it up and coupled with the phots you can build one if desired. The idea can always be adapted to suit whats available, Best for now Alan Wow, that looks great, thanks for taking the time and effort to do that, I really appreciate it! 👍 John Zuch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Foxworthy Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 Ditto: Thanks for the print. Great idea! Regards Bruce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.