C-Clamp

I wanted to master printing threads, so I decided to start with a c-clamp. Tried acme threads, like most real c-clamps I've ever seen, but the angles of acme threads are too hard to print. This thread is a pretty standard M10x1.5. The shoe uses a M8x1.25 thread.

I printed a couple other c-clamps I found on Thingiverse, but I didn't like the swivel shoe designs that snapped over the end of the screw on most of those others, because about half the time the fingers broke off when I snapped them on. I designed this one so that the shoe screws on, but still swivels. This way, the shoe never breaks, as far as I know, and I've made a lot of these for friends, in both PLA and PETG.

I also evolved the design a little, to make it print with no support and no raft, which seems better for a lot of reasons.

And one friend asked if it could have legs to stand up on its own, like a little vise, so I added a version like that. I staggered the legs so two of them could get closer together and