Any Angle Clamp helper

I recently needed to glue together many pieces of wood at many different angles (usually obtuse angles). I found it difficult to find a proper clamping setup that was stable for most of these joints, so I made these.

These tools should allow you to apply clamping pressure perpendicular to almost any joint. My strategy was:

• Use a machinist square to drop a perpendicular line to the edge(s) you intend to glue

• Clamp the clamp-helper to your workpiece(s) so that the perpendicular line you found intersects the round portion of the clamp-helper. (This may mar soft wood, I'm sure you could use some sort of rubber or scrap wood as a buffer between the clamp-helper and your workpiece)

• Clamp the joint using the round portion of the helper, thus applying force perpendicular to the mating surfaces.

It is absolutely still finicky, but when you find a good positioning of the clamp-helper, the joints are rock solid.

I printed these pretty beefy:

• PETG

• 50% infill

• 5 walls

• 5 bottom/top layers

• 0.4mm layer height (this dropped the print time of the smaller clamp-helper to just under 3 hours)

That said, I did about 20 joints like this, and these things never flinched, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze them.

Large measures about 6" end to end and Small measure roughly 4".

Though picture includes a solid-fill end for the large model, both models have a hollow end as this was found not to impact strength and removing it decreased printing time.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

TEVO

Printer: Tarantula

Rafts:

No

Supports: No

Resolution:

0.4mm

Infill: 50%

Filament: Generic PETG

Notes

Tested with:

* 5 walls * 5 bottom/top layers

Category: Hand Tools

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