Dewalt 611 Spindle Lock Device

X-Carve
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I will post it when we get it done.

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Hi Neil, my students have pretty well got it nailed down, having measured the machine and worked their way through drawing and combining shapes in easel. Their efforts are more of a “rectangle with a hole in it” than the C-shape of the SVG, but that’s ok. The finished tool will have room for a nice little arrow to remind them of the correct direction to turn the collet wrench.

We will test different types and thicknesses of materials to see what works best.

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What do you teach?

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Hi Neil, Officially I am a math teacher, but I took over a trashed out middle school wood shop about 6 years ago. So I teach “21st century shop class” and also wrangle the gifted/ talented crew at my middle school. I teach basic hand tool skills (how to use a tape measure, square, screwdriver, hammer, hand saw, plane), some beginning machine work (scroll saw, band saw, drill press, sanders), basic CAD with EASEL, SketchUp, and TinkerCAD, and CAM with the X-Carve and a motley assemblage of home brewed 3d printers.

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Hi Christopher
I hve been using the Spindle Lock DEvice since I first designed it. I printed it in PLA and I’m please to say that it has stood up the the vigors of use. Glafd to be of help.

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Thanks Allan, I am using your design, printed in PLA and confirm that it works well. The durability issue has more to do with how some 11-year-olds tend to treat things. They are not necessarily destructive, but they tend to stress things in unintended ways. I think our final version will be larger and I will engrave some instructions on it, or use the blank area to record machine settings, or be useful in some other way.