We’re proud to say another successful Kickstarter campaign is done and dusted 
With over £1.39 million raised by over 4,100 backers, it’s been the biggest yet 
Thank you to everyone that’s gotten behind another MetMo creation, we couldn’t have done it without you! 
Fractal Vise has now officially moved to metmo.co.uk with all add-ons, except the conversion kit which will remain a Kickstarter exclusive.
The comments we received throughout the campaign were amazing! We wanted to pick out a couple but it was simply too hard so here’s the link to the comments section 
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Hi Will, thanks for sharing this, we really appreciate you keeping an eye out and letting us know. We’ve actually clocked these guys already and informed Kickstarter, so let’s hope they have no real success!
On a different note, when I saw the update, a different project was suggested to me:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goldfirefly/towerspin-a-brilliantly-designed-2-in-1-edc-tool
which seems a nice fit in-between the Multi Drive and Pocket Driver (and is along the lines of the drill replacement I’ve been suggesting for a while).
Probably not backing it because…
- finance committee has raised concerns about my profligateness
- I don’t think the mechanism will have sufficient inertia to really be useful/have torque
- I want to see how the Fractal Vise works out when paired w/ a bench-mounted drill (and I’m probably going to go for the vertical mount version for that as an add-on)
I think this sort of design would be far more interesting if there was some sort of clutch mechanism to prevent backwards rotation, and even more so if there was some sort of integrated gearing so as to increase the speed of rotation when turning it — I suspect either would be challenging at this size in terms of engineering and material strength/machinability — that said, a design which incorporated both would be awesome for speeding through initial stages of hardware installs, and if one could incorporate a pair of gearing mechanisms, one which increased speed, the other which increased torque (with a neutral setting for direct transfer of rotation), this could be an absolutely game-changing tool.
Probably, it would have to be made in pairs — one for on, the other for off — if it could be brought into existence, I’d gladly buy a pair.
Hi Will, thanks its funny I was looking at this product only yesterday. Thats quiet an interesting way of doing it, we were experimenting with some ideas on using the gearbox from a battery drill to give a bit of range, the down side at the moment with that is as you have said, it makes the thing quite big and bulky.
this spinning driver idea reminds me a lot of the one done by Giaco years ago, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1496249101/kinetic-driver
These inertia driven drivers seem ok for the tiny screws but for drilling holes, personally I agree with you. I did recently see an antique pillar drill that used a massive governor so store kinetic energy, incredible to watch modern health and safety would have a field day though!
I believe a co-worker has one of those (and I regret not getting it, and have envied it — guess I know what my next mad money purchase is). Thanks!
EDIT: I’m guessing something along the lines of:
https://vrestorations.blogspot.com/2012/04/bradson-pillar-drill-no29.html