Hello, friends this article series is to explain how practically 3d printing is helpful for your daily life.
Today I come up with the idea of an Aluminum Cutting Jig.
Since I was designing and construct a lot of DIY projects, It's having a wide usage of 20x20, 20x40, 40x40 Aluminum Extrusion bars because it's more handy, easy to use, and fit.
For example, I'm Building a CR-10 clone and OPEN PNP as shown below.
So to use them we need to cut them for our desired lengths every time for that we need a cut-off-saw, which is so Noisy, Space occupancy, and Costly maybe most of the DIY people cannot afford like me.
To cut the Aluminum profiles usually use a bench vice and hacksaw as shown below, I never got a straight even after filing it, I use the same but it's always unsatisfactory.
So I got an idea to design a 3d printed support to get a straight cut. I designed a
cutting jig to hold the aluminum profile easily.
I printed it with PETG with 60% infill.
I attached the printed Jig to an aluminum stand to be easier to hold and to place the aluminum profile at exact length while cutting.
So the results after cutting with my new cutting-jig are very clean and promising as shown below.
Thank you for reading the article and you can also download the .stl from the below link and start to build your own cutting-jig.
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