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Star knobs

Doggggboy

Doggggboy

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Anyone have a preferred Thingiverse model for star knobs?
There are hundreds on Thingiverse and I'm not liking what I've tried so far.
Looking for 3/8 bolt style. Some of the models are parametric so the size wouldn't matter so much
 
Do you have a picture of one? I just designed what I called a star-knob for some bolts on my router table. I did them in fusion. I'm planning to expoy a bolt to the knob......
 
I hear ya. I based mine off the gorgeous knobs I got from lee valley. You may have to scale it out, it was meant for a smaller bolt


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50 mm width does the trick. I may make it a bit taller to recess the bolt head a bit more.
Even 10% infill seems sturdy but I'll probably bump that to 40 or 50% for the final print.
And , yeah, way cheaper. A four lobe 3/8-16 black phenolic knob at McMaster Carr is $3.35 USD. Material cost for me to print was 11 cents.
And more fun.
Thanks Kevin.
 
Doggggboy said:
50 mm width does the trick. I may make it a bit taller to recess the bolt head a bit more.
Even 10% infill seems sturdy but I'll probably bump that to 40 or 50% for the final print.
And , yeah, way cheaper. A four lobe 3/8-16 black phenolic knob at McMaster Carr is $3.35 USD. Material cost for me to print was 11 cents.
And more fun.
Thanks Kevin.
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Can you post a pic?
 
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It works fine.
I may make a hex capture hole for the bolt and make it a little deeper to hold some epoxy.
I don't use fusion yet. Too scared. But for what I do, Tinkercad does the trick most of the time.
 
Another option is to make the knob so it has a recess which fits the OD of the bolt head. But also a hex boss which engages the hex of the bolt head kind of like a mini integral allen wrench. That way the knob is fully engaging the bolt, both perpendicular and retained. No glue required. (There are actually commercial versions of this).
 
PeterT said:
Another option is to make the knob so it has a recess which fits the OD of the bolt head. But also a hex boss which engages the hex of the bolt head kind of like a mini integral allen wrench. That way the knob is fully engaging the bolt, both perpendicular and retained. No glue required. (There are actually commercial versions of this).
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I've tried a few models like that but nothing really made me happy. A lot of them are just a bit too sloppy. I know some of them can be resized a bit but I honestly didn't think finding one designed to fit a 3/8 bolt would be this hard
 
I made some T style locks like that and found after a while the captured bolt head rounds it out but you could put a thin nut on the other side so your actually get more support clamping it to itself.
 
A couple of people here mentioned the learning curve on Fusion. I found the Youtube videos "Learn Fusion 360 or Die Trying" excellent. The presenter is a retired teacher, and he talks and walks you through from very basic - a box - to highly complex things like helical gears. I use Fusion all the time, and once you get about 6 lessons in you can quickly draft just about anything, and modify things from Thingiverse in minutes. I am not in any industry, just a regular Joe of average intelligence (I hope, anyway)

I highly recommend the series of you want to learn Fusion.
 
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