DIY Pedalboard - 3d printed & Aluminium Extrustions 400mm x 300mm

[rwillett]

I had loads of cables over my pedalboard, not everything is the right length. One of the nice things about 2040 aluminium is that it's in use in CNC machines and 3d printers, so somebody somewhere has probably had a similar problem to you, in my case cable clips for too long cables.

 

Found this on Printables.com https://www.printables.com/model/15228-yacc-yet-another-cable-clip-for-openbuilds-v-slot-/files

 

Lots of different clips that simply <ahem> clip into the aluminium. Push cables through and that's it. No cable ties, dead easy and dirt cheap.

 

 

Edited November 9 by rwillett

[rwillett]

A slight design change. I'd used the handles as designed by the original people. These handles sat on the top of the board and screwed into the v-slots using t-nuts. They also took up valuable space.

 

One of the really nice things about V/T-slot extrusion is they have things like 5mm holes in the end. These holes can be tapped with a M5 tap set, so pulled mine out the garage and tapped eight holes. I can now screw M5 bolts in.

 

 

The design for the original handles wasn't quite right, so I did them all again so that the handles covered the end of the extrusions properly.

 

 

It looks very nice from the bottom

 

 

and from the top

 

 

Really pleased with this, if anybody is interested, I'll happily make one for the price of the parts and a donation to Andy's BC donation fund

 

Rob

 

 

 

Edited November 15 by rwillett

[rwillett]

After using the pedalboard I then found out that it's quite difficult to hit the pedals on the back of the board without hitting the foot switches on the front. I could easy break the pedalboard into one long boards but I'd like to keep it in two rows. So I made some pedal risers that are 25mm higher. Not sure if that's enough but I'll try that to start.

 

I created two designs in F360, one a rectangular one for pedals that aren't too wide, the Mod Dwarf is an example of this, long and thin - 200mm x 100mm, and an H shaped one for wider pedals, such as the ToneX, which is 170mm x 140mm. It's all parametrised in F360 so making it 10mm longer or wider or higher is trivial. Takes about 3-4 hours per riser to print. I've stood on them so they are pretty strong.

 

   

There are holes through for cable management. These are the horizontal holes, I made sure that a Cioks cables fits through and it easily does both horizontally and vertically.

 

The vertical holes are for screwing the risers to the aluminium extrusion. Eight screws is massive overkill so I only use four of them, they are there in case I change the design or I make this into a production ready design and need more options. Design it in now and then forget about it. The horizontal sections are 25mm wide and so 20mm Velcro nicely fits.

 

This is without Velcro

 

and with velcro and a ToneX pedal.

 

 

Works well and is very sturdy.

Rob

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 17:57 by rwillett