Stepdrill holder
Description
A step drill is a handy tool to have beside your 3d printer. They are a bit hard to turn in your fingers and an electric drill is overkill for sizing a hole.
This thing takes my step drill so I can turn it easily by hand.
The hex shaft looks pretty standard so you can probably use screw driver bits in it.
Or maybe you can use a hex drive extender with it.
No doubt it has been done before.
I'm posting two versions.
One has a hex hole right through and the other has the hole blocked off.
I added a screw hole to lock the bit in.
My print was too tight but I put the PLA thing in hot water and the drill shaft slid in with no effort. It is stuck there now which is OK with me.
This thing takes my step drill so I can turn it easily by hand.
The hex shaft looks pretty standard so you can probably use screw driver bits in it.
Or maybe you can use a hex drive extender with it.
No doubt it has been done before.
I'm posting two versions.
One has a hex hole right through and the other has the hole blocked off.
I added a screw hole to lock the bit in.
My print was too tight but I put the PLA thing in hot water and the drill shaft slid in with no effort. It is stuck there now which is OK with me.
Instructions
I printed mine in PLA at .3mm and 40% fill.
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License
Stepdrill holder by eddiema is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.

You mean I could have using my step drill all this time to size holes? I think I just had a "duh" moment, of maybe "D'oh"!
Well some holes. It is good for cleaning up the squashed first layer for example.
Other tools such as a tapered reamer would do it too.