Not only are you clever enough to design and make, you also film what you do, explain what you do in very good English, edit it all to make perfect sense. Well done very clever Marius.
I've had the chance to use this table a couple of times now. It's fun to whip out in front of people:) I can see what people are talking about when they say the legs are delicate, but they're design to support a "mostly" vertical load, not be torqued from the side or pushed back into place. If you just let the table open or close on it's own and don't force anything, it works great ruclips.net/user/postUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh Once it's set up, it's pretty solid. My only gripe would probably be related to the clamps provided. They're not the highest quality. They do the job, so no big deal, but they could be better. All in all, pretty cool gadget.
Awesome design. I built a pair of these out of a scrap of Luan plywood underlayment left over from a closet reno, and they were easy to build, and FREE! I finished them and tried them out tonight for the first time and they work great! Thanks for posting this design!
Just finished a set of 4 clamps and stop blocks. These are amazing and will allow me to use them for carving and other woodwork. Thanks again for the precise presentation and templates.
Patent is too late now. Besides, cam-levers are widely known already. The idea is still awesome and deserves lots of credit! -Now you can build your workbench without needing to install a vise; just drill dog-holes instead and use cam-levers - you can of course combine that with hold-fast and other clamping methods.
Nice work, Thanks for the out takes. After a frustrating day getting the CNC router working again and cutting into a screw with the router bit, I needed the laugh!
I just wanted to say how amazing these are and a really really BIG thank you for making this video! I'm new to CNC, having built one in my attic as a project. I was creating my spoilboard and was initially looking at threaded inserts in a matrix style to then screw clamps to. However, I found your vidoe and the plans for the clamps and gave it a go today. The results are amazing!! I'm soooo pleased. If you ever find yourself in Fife, Scotland then I owe you a couple of beers. Thanks again for your great videos. Really like your humour and your style. Cheers :-)
Once again you give us a brilliant idea executed with the precision of an aged master craftsman. And thanks for showing the little mistakes along the way. It serves as a great reminder that even the best projects are built by humans. So we break an egg or two, omelets are delicious! Great work Sir, thank you for sharing.
Great idea! Watched this, printed the template and ran out to the shop to make them. They work great! Easy setup, hold very well, stay put and doesn't damage the work piece. Will use them on my glue up and sanding tables. Don't have a CNC yet but I will find plenty of options for this system like homemade bar clamps and perhaps picture frame adaptation. The best part is, they are made from scrap so I can make as many as I want without a trip to the hardware store.
I made a set today. They work great - thanks for sharing this. I had to adjust the DXF to accomodate imperial (blech) pipe. I cut the whole set out of a piece of 24"x24" birch plywood, then used them for another project after the glue dried. Very cool stuff. Maybe half an hour of tweaking the CAD and getting the CAM set up, about 10 minutes to cut.
Hello, I need to change the file to accommodate 15mm pipe, do I just need to reduce the circle size where the pipes go, or scale down the whole design? Any help appreciated!
Awesome idea. I just commented on Izzy Swan's channel that as someone starting to fill out a shop clamps have been a big issue for me. They are so expensive so do what I can with the few I have. Making them is so much cheaper. Thanks!
Envious of your abilities both mental to work through issues and mechanical / woodworking to get them to work.. Look forward to more of your inspiring videos..Thank you.
I love your videos Marius and I have to say this one always peaked my interest but did have cause to build any. I was trying to figure out the curve type you needed for the cam action and determined that it really needs to be an archimedes spiral - which is one whose distance from the center increases equally with each unit of degrees rotation. The common failing is that people believe a circle with an offset center is the secret and it isn't because that has an inconsistent clamping force depending where the binding point is. Wie die anderen schon gesagt haben - Gut gemacht Junge!
Bravo Marius, aujourd'hui j'ai fabriqué à l'aide de t'es dessins ton système de clamp sur ma CNC. Celà fonctionne à merveille. Maintenant je fais un montage dans quelque secondes, et c'est vraiment solide. Encore bravo.
Genial einfach, einfach genial ! Unfassbar gut ! Ich habe Dein Video (leider) erst vor ein paar Tagen gefunden. Genau das. was ich schon lange gesucht habe. Heute habe ich mir die Teile nachgebaut und gleich ausprobiert. Besser geht´s nicht ! Danke dafür !
Smart, smart, smart!! When I downloaded your drawing from your original "Cam Lever Clamp" video, I thought, WTF!! Very smart design which I will implement on my DIY CNC. Thanks.
Thank you Marius. These solutions are brilliant and will help me loads. And thanks for the downloadable plans to help me make them. I will pay it forward since you have given the result of your work to me
Schön das du im Moment mehr Zeit für deine Videos hast. Schaue die immer sehr gerne an :) Ich denke ich werde mir auch solche Hebel für meine CNC anfertigen.
Play with some of the sides being cut at a overhang angle, that way you can bring in some downward pressure. Specific flute patterns cut and pull the piece up. Side pressure does present some opposition to an upward vector, but it drops off exponentially.The copper tube lugs should have some roughness to max friction in the dog hole.
This is amazing! I'm looking for the best wasteboard setup for my CNC machine for weeks now and this one is easy to make, cheap and there is no need to buy dogpins, clamps or whatever. Thanks!!! Maybe make the pipe a bit longer so it goes thru the whole clamp.
Thank you very much, you are a great engineer. I was initially interested in looking for a low profile clamp system for a wood carving table but see this will also work great on my larger work table. Very nice work.
Hello again, ECXELENT VID!!! i completed my first set of cnc worktable clamps as per your template plans provided & it works great. Next time i will use a better solid wood as the ply is prone to splitting at the laminate seams and high crush pressures. Thanks again for sharing, explaining & demonstrating.
Love this. The only improvement I'll make is to use pvc or something softer than the copper tube so the if (er when) I do something stupid and the bit hits it, it has a less likely chance of breaking.
Being a CNC machinist/programmer/design engineer I can appreciate this very much. Especially since I have always considered myself to be very adept at designing workholding clamps and fixtures. I like what you have done here but I hope I can give you some pointers without seeming to be an arrogant ass. Because the truth is I really love seeing the younger generation being very good at something besides playing video games ;) One suggestion (and this is just an observation from my anal retentive perspective), the orientation of the clamps at 14 seconds of this video should be flipped over to apply pressure directly towards the stops in the table. If the part were to kick left, the left clamp could loosen. And the right clamp is applying pressure towards the left to help that happen. I do realize that is probably not going to happen. But in 25 years, I have seen stranger things. Having the clamps applying pressure downward in the orientation of this video would be more secure. If the part tried to kick left, the left clamp would tighten and drive the part towards the pins in the table. Because the direction of force is being applied by a cam system, the cam works differently depending on which way it rotates to tighten. I hope that makes sense ;) Another example is at 36 seconds the clamps are doing the same thing. The rotation is such that it is pulling the work piece away from the fixed stops on the bottom and left side of the part. Flipping the clamps would be far more secure and any attempt for the tooling to push the part away from the fixed stop would tighten the clamps. That being said, your design ROCKS! Great job man! It minimizes the things I mentioned above to some extent. But I would still suggest that attention is given to the direction the clamp is moving as it tightens toward the workpiece (which will be an orbital pattern). If you try to imagine the part moving away from the hard stops, imagining what will the clamps do is the first things I see when setting up a part.
Excellent tip, thanks! I'm intrigued as to why you have chosen 75mm hole spacings for your worktop, instead of the standard 96mm? Also, what diameter is your copper pipe? Cheers.
thanks so much for your videos! can you please give recommendations where I can find similar spoilboard template and the clamps with copper pipe parts?
Question are the files below downloadable for both the washboard and the cam clamps this idea is awesome and so simple I’m about to purchase a shapoko xxxl this would be an awesome first step if I can figure out how to surface it so it’s really flat. I’m still watching all your vids great contact and great ideas.
Come on get that CNC router of yours in the mix. You obviously know the dimensions and profile of your cam locks(cos ya created them on a CAD program). Lets move into the 22nd century! Haha another great video. Thankyou.
Not only are you clever enough to design and make, you also film what you do, explain what you do in very good English, edit it all to make perfect sense. Well done very clever Marius.
Thanks, man!
I've had the chance to use this table a couple of times now. It's fun to whip out in front of people:) I can see what people are talking about when they say the legs are delicate, but they're design to support a "mostly" vertical load, not be torqued from the side or pushed back into place. If you just let the table open or close on it's own and don't force anything, it works great ruclips.net/user/postUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh Once it's set up, it's pretty solid. My only gripe would probably be related to the clamps provided. They're not the highest quality. They do the job, so no big deal, but they could be better. All in all, pretty cool gadget.
I like when a creation is the fruit of smartness and not the one on technology only. This one is great.
it takes brilliance to come up with the most simple and effective solutions. Excellent!
Awesome design. I built a pair of these out of a scrap of Luan plywood underlayment left over from a closet reno, and they were easy to build, and FREE! I finished them and tried them out tonight for the first time and they work great! Thanks for posting this design!
Marius you are the best. I am ingeneer from Russia. You are advantage so wonderful. Good luck.
Just finished a set of 4 clamps and stop blocks. These are amazing and will allow me to use them for carving and other woodwork. Thanks again for the precise presentation and templates.
Clever clever, interesting to see the progression to these and how they surperseed your immediate prior designs. I think these deserve a patent.
Patent is too late now. Besides, cam-levers are widely known already. The idea is still awesome and deserves lots of credit!
-Now you can build your workbench without needing to install a vise; just drill dog-holes instead and use cam-levers - you can of course combine that with hold-fast and other clamping methods.
Nice work, Thanks for the out takes. After a frustrating day getting the CNC router working again and cutting into a screw with the router bit, I needed the laugh!
I just wanted to say how amazing these are and a really really BIG thank you for making this video! I'm new to CNC, having built one in my attic as a project. I was creating my spoilboard and was initially looking at threaded inserts in a matrix style to then screw clamps to. However, I found your vidoe and the plans for the clamps and gave it a go today. The results are amazing!! I'm soooo pleased. If you ever find yourself in Fife, Scotland then I owe you a couple of beers. Thanks again for your great videos. Really like your humour and your style. Cheers :-)
Once again you give us a brilliant idea executed with the precision of an aged master craftsman. And thanks for showing the little mistakes along the way. It serves as a great reminder that even the best projects are built by humans. So we break an egg or two, omelets are delicious! Great work Sir, thank you for sharing.
I already have the holes, but i still need to build my bench around them.
I really like these dogholeclamps!!
lol
Pocket-holes ?
Great idea! Watched this, printed the template and ran out to the shop to make them. They work great! Easy setup, hold very well, stay put and doesn't damage the work piece. Will use them on my glue up and sanding tables. Don't have a CNC yet but I will find plenty of options for this system like homemade bar clamps and perhaps picture frame adaptation. The best part is, they are made from scrap so I can make as many as I want without a trip to the hardware store.
I've never seen anything better than this clamp. Thank you so much for sharing this incredible idea.
Thanks so much for providing the templates for free. That's a great contribution to pottering mankind ;)
I made a set today. They work great - thanks for sharing this. I had to adjust the DXF to accomodate imperial (blech) pipe. I cut the whole set out of a piece of 24"x24" birch plywood, then used them for another project after the glue dried. Very cool stuff. Maybe half an hour of tweaking the CAD and getting the CAM set up, about 10 minutes to cut.
Hello, I need to change the file to accommodate 15mm pipe, do I just need to reduce the circle size where the pipes go, or scale down the whole design? Any help appreciated!
Clever engineering and quite appreciated for those who aren't so inclined. Thanks! Keep it up.
Awesome idea. I just commented on Izzy Swan's channel that as someone starting to fill out a shop clamps have been a big issue for me. They are so expensive so do what I can with the few I have. Making them is so much cheaper. Thanks!
Marius, Monty Python has competition. I love your dry humour. All the best.
Youll make a great engineer, Marius! Impressive development of this smart clamp
Envious of your abilities both mental to work through issues and mechanical / woodworking to get them to work.. Look forward to more of your inspiring videos..Thank you.
love the outtakes. Your videos are always a learning experience for me.
Very nice, inexpensive to make clamps. And extra thumbs up for making the templates available to everyone that wants them.
yes they are real nice I made a few with some 12 mm pipe I had somewhere and it works like a charm the best for me so far
I love your videos Marius and I have to say this one always peaked my interest but did have cause to build any. I was trying to figure out the curve type you needed for the cam action and determined that it really needs to be an archimedes spiral - which is one whose distance from the center increases equally with each unit of degrees rotation. The common failing is that people believe a circle with an offset center is the secret and it isn't because that has an inconsistent clamping force depending where the binding point is.
Wie die anderen schon gesagt haben - Gut gemacht Junge!
Yep. Just made that circle mistake. Thats why I am here😂
Bravo Marius, aujourd'hui j'ai fabriqué à l'aide de t'es dessins ton système de clamp sur ma CNC.
Celà fonctionne à merveille. Maintenant je fais un montage dans quelque secondes, et c'est vraiment solide.
Encore bravo.
Genial einfach, einfach genial ! Unfassbar gut ! Ich habe Dein Video (leider) erst vor ein paar Tagen gefunden. Genau das. was ich schon lange gesucht habe. Heute habe ich mir die Teile nachgebaut und gleich ausprobiert. Besser geht´s nicht ! Danke dafür !
thank you so much dude, and the guy who made the dxf too, you saved me a whole bunch of time and woodpieces flying around by sharing this clamps
Very nice 'upgrade' Marius!
I'll be setting aside some time in the shop tomorrow to make a set of these.
Smart, smart, smart!! When I downloaded your drawing from your original "Cam Lever Clamp" video, I thought, WTF!! Very smart design which I will implement on my DIY CNC. Thanks.
Thank you Marius. These solutions are brilliant and will help me loads. And thanks for the downloadable plans to help me make them. I will pay it forward since you have given the result of your work to me
you are a smart dude! engineering at its finest
Schön das du im Moment mehr Zeit für deine Videos hast. Schaue die immer sehr gerne an :)
Ich denke ich werde mir auch solche Hebel für meine CNC anfertigen.
I have my holes in the table and the original clamps and so far, looking good. Now to tackle the square ones. Great job.
Very clever - clever enough that this should really be a commercial product.
You're a bloody genius, mate!! Love your work and ideas! New sub from New Zealand....
Play with some of the sides being cut at a overhang angle, that way you can bring in some downward pressure. Specific flute patterns cut and pull the piece up. Side pressure does present some opposition to an upward vector, but it drops off exponentially.The copper tube lugs should have some roughness to max friction in the dog hole.
This is amazing! I'm looking for the best wasteboard setup for my CNC machine for weeks now and this one is easy to make, cheap and there is no need to buy dogpins, clamps or whatever. Thanks!!!
Maybe make the pipe a bit longer so it goes thru the whole clamp.
dHi Marius. Inventables should talk to you about using these with their systems. Great idea.
Thanks for the free plans. His work is creative, well explained and well done. Congratulations.
Thank you very much, you are a great engineer. I was initially interested in looking for a low profile clamp system for a wood carving table but see this will also work great on my larger work table. Very nice work.
Cool system. Just finishing my big CNC router and I'm going to make bunch of these :)
Thanks!
Great idea, and simple operation
Allows full access to the top surface
Hi Marius, great clamps. Can you give a bit more details for construction of the spiral. What diameter and pitch have you used in each direction?
Marius these are a brilliant design!
Thanks you to France for your explanation.
These are brilliant! just got a table top and have been thinking about how to outfit it. This will work great.
These will work great with the Mathias-designed router pantograph I just made. Thanks!
Thanks for the design and instruction. I built them and I am very happy using them. Thank you for making this edutaining video!
Hello again, ECXELENT VID!!!
i completed my first set of cnc worktable clamps as per your template plans provided & it works great.
Next time i will use a better solid wood as the ply is prone to splitting at the laminate seams and high crush pressures.
Thanks again for sharing, explaining & demonstrating.
How did I miss this.... You're a genius!
Great design
What brand of hand plane did you use in the video
Love this. The only improvement I'll make is to use pvc or something softer than the copper tube so the if (er when) I do something stupid and the bit hits it, it has a less likely chance of breaking.
Bin über einen Russen, der dich gelobt hat auf deine Kanal gekommen. Danke für die Tolle Idee!
Ingenious design Marius. Cheers, Jim
Ingenious in it's simplicity!
Great video,I'm going to redo my whole waste board now.I love this clamping system.Thanks
Very nice Marius. These look handy.
Being a CNC machinist/programmer/design engineer I can appreciate this very much. Especially since I have always considered myself to be very adept at designing workholding clamps and fixtures. I like what you have done here but I hope I can give you some pointers without seeming to be an arrogant ass. Because the truth is I really love seeing the younger generation being very good at something besides playing video games ;)
One suggestion (and this is just an observation from my anal retentive perspective), the orientation of the clamps at 14 seconds of this video should be flipped over to apply pressure directly towards the stops in the table. If the part were to kick left, the left clamp could loosen. And the right clamp is applying pressure towards the left to help that happen. I do realize that is probably not going to happen. But in 25 years, I have seen stranger things. Having the clamps applying pressure downward in the orientation of this video would be more secure. If the part tried to kick left, the left clamp would tighten and drive the part towards the pins in the table. Because the direction of force is being applied by a cam system, the cam works differently depending on which way it rotates to tighten. I hope that makes sense ;)
Another example is at 36 seconds the clamps are doing the same thing. The rotation is such that it is pulling the work piece away from the fixed stops on the bottom and left side of the part. Flipping the clamps would be far more secure and any attempt for the tooling to push the part away from the fixed stop would tighten the clamps.
That being said, your design ROCKS! Great job man! It minimizes the things I mentioned above to some extent. But I would still suggest that attention is given to the direction the clamp is moving as it tightens toward the workpiece (which will be an orbital pattern). If you try to imagine the part moving away from the hard stops, imagining what will the clamps do is the first things I see when setting up a part.
Sounds like you should make some and create a how to use properly video. 25 years experience is awesome and can help many people. :)
Any chance you might futher explain your suggestion so a non-engineer-type might fully-grasp it?
excellent videos. ...I learn a lot from your videos. I enjoy watching them. thanks for sharing your love for making things
Ingenious! Thanks for sharing the idea. I'll have to adapt it to my specific table, but this solves a few of my clamping problems. Thanks! :)
Real love this design. Going to make them tomorrow. Thanks for the plans. I enjoy watching all your video's.
Does the wheel have to be a perfect circle ? Great video
Love these! I will be building a set for myself. Thank you!
German Engineering proved to be great yet again!
This is genius! Exactly what I need for my Paulk style workbench. Hope to bang these out tomorrow (in imperial, though).
Cool, thanks. I am going to modify these to work with my 2" spaced 6mm holes.
Marius, very ingenious and applicable. Thank you for sharing!
This is brilliant for my home setup! Thanks a bunch :)
This is a very good idea. Excellent!
Good evening Marius, yes ran clips, made of plywood 20 mm was very resistant, thanks friend for the tip!
yes i agree, you are very smart. great job.This is the best clamping system
Excellent tip, thanks! I'm intrigued as to why you have chosen 75mm hole spacings for your worktop, instead of the standard 96mm? Also, what diameter is your copper pipe? Cheers.
Thank you Marius for sharing this! Just made my own set of these and works wonders, very nice!
Nice, might have to use this system on the workbench I want to build. Thanks for sharing!
thanks so much for your videos! can you please give recommendations where I can find similar spoilboard template and the clamps with copper pipe parts?
Excelente, gracias por la enseñanza Marius
Good work, but if i have a small pivot point, should i change the center point of the circle? or i have to change?
This is so awesome!!!! I need this for my CNC.
So simple and yet so effective, ingenious!
Thanks, these are absolutely ingenious!
thank you so much. really. you just saved me a lot of money. like your content, shap
very good. If making more holes in the table. 5cm between the holes, so there are even more options for clamping things, I've done that.
Impressive! How did you glue the pipe in? I'm a rookie and wouldn't know how to glue metal to wood
Nice job!
great job. the DXF file download worked better no need to make account. thanks
Again, great engineering. Big fan!
Well done. Great idea and design.
I'll hopefully be making this as soon as i get my DIY CNC up and running.
Brilliant work, Marius!
Thanks for the video and the plans. Made the clamps today: works perfect :)
This is absolutely brilliant! Well done
Great work and thanks for sharing. BTW, the Festool MFT has a hole spacing of 96mm.
That's just genius. I'm going to make a set. Thank you Marius!
That's clever and simple!
Very well thought out. Great build!
Good job Marius. Besides, I'm glad you've shared the plans. Regards!
Question are the files below downloadable for both the washboard and the cam clamps this idea is awesome and so simple I’m about to purchase a shapoko xxxl this would be an awesome first step if I can figure out how to surface it so it’s really flat. I’m still watching all your vids great contact and great ideas.
Come on get that CNC router of yours in the mix. You obviously know the dimensions and profile of your cam locks(cos ya created them on a CAD program). Lets move into the 22nd century! Haha another great video. Thankyou.
Oh, Marius, now you've gone and DONE IT! Now I've got to make a new list of geniuses.
A 3d printing of this amazing tool would be nice! Just an idea.
Thank you, Marius! Like always, the videos are plausible! Ich Danke Dir! :))