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Making a Wall Clock From a Sawblade

·223 words·2 mins
Martin Rønn
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Martin Rønn
Carpenter and software developer based in Denmark doing carpentry, software development, 3D printing, CAD, self-hosting and much more.

It would seem that every respectable woodworking shop has a wall clock in the form of a sawblade. I have a very old sawblade from West Germany that I do not dare to use for security reasons. It is quite unique, and I think it would be a waste to just throw it out. So I made it into a wall clock.

I got one of those generic quartz movement for wall clocks off of a broken Ikea watch and took som measurements.

To make it a bit more challenging and develop my FreeCAD skills I wanted the prints to just clip/snap on both the sawblade and the clock movement.

My first attempt was a failure. Because the model has hooks on both sides it required a lot of support material and the small hooks would break off when removing it.

After some playing around. The solution I came up with were to split the model into two parts that could both be printed flat on one side. This work great after I got the tollerences correct so that the two models could fit into each other.

This was the first time I have made this kind of model and I learned a lot. The best part is that the prints just snap in place.

The files can be downloaded here on Printables.

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