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Re: I made clamps from scrap
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 8/18/1998, 11:10 am
In Response To: I made clamps from scrap (PJacobson)

If I ever hit the lottery I'll make the most awesome shop my first expenditure.

One day I was at the hardware store and bought clamps. My wife asked "how many do you really need?" I said " you can never have too many clamps. Not two hours later we were watching Norm Abram's New Yankee Workshop and he repeated the exact words. I looked at her, and she just sighed. Since then I have shown her the same quote in Nick's book, Chris Kulczycki's book, and a couple of others.

> I had assumed that the clamps would pinch things together like
> heavy clothespins. They did, and that was all wrong. I needed the
> `jaws' of these clamps to be nearly parallel so that they could draw
> things together tighter.

> I never regretted using regular nuts instead of wingnuts. I could
> spin them with a finger until the clamp was seated in position, and
> then with the wrench I could really get them good and tight.

> I have seen plans for similar clamps, with one side a straight
> piece of wood, and the other cut in the shape of an `L'. These seem
> to bee good ideas, but slower to make.

> Paul Jacobson

Messages In This Thread

sheer clamp installation help
chris j -- 8/17/1998, 11:27 am
Re: time vs money
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/19/1998, 1:24 pm
Re: time vs money
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 4:38 pm
Cheap shear clamp clamps
Jay Babina -- 8/18/1998, 5:07 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Rich Kuchar -- 8/18/1998, 2:31 pm
I set mine flush with the top
Brian C. -- 8/18/1998, 3:55 pm
Re: I set mine flush with the top
Mike Scarborough -- 8/18/1998, 6:14 pm
Inside edge?
Brian C. -- 8/19/1998, 10:50 am
Re: Inside edge?
Mark Bodnar -- 8/22/1998, 8:04 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Scotty -- 8/18/1998, 2:00 am
I made clamps from scrap
PJacobson -- 8/17/1998, 9:45 pm
Re: I made clamps from scrap
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 5:37 pm
Re: cheaper yet
NPenney -- 8/18/1998, 11:45 am
Re: cheaper yet
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 12:54 am
Re: I made clamps from scrap
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 11:10 am
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Don Beale -- 8/17/1998, 8:04 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/17/1998, 1:50 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Shawn Baker -- 8/17/1998, 4:16 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Bobby Curtis -- 8/21/1998, 9:38 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Mark Kanzler -- 8/17/1998, 4:35 pm
Be Carful, don't get bit
Brian C. -- 8/18/1998, 1:04 pm
Re: Be Carful, don't get bit
Paul A. Lambert -- 8/21/1998, 8:44 am
Re: Be Carful, don't get bit
jim champoux -- 8/18/1998, 1:29 pm
Re: war wounds
Ross Leidy -- 8/18/1998, 3:23 pm
Re: war wounds
jim champoux -- 8/19/1998, 1:51 pm
Re: war wounds
Ross Leidy -- 8/19/1998, 2:12 pm
Re: war wounds
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 4:50 pm
Re: war wounds
Ross Leidy -- 8/19/1998, 5:01 pm
Re: war wounds
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 5:13 pm
Re: war wounds
jim champoux -- 8/18/1998, 3:34 pm
WHEW!
Bruce H. -- 8/18/1998, 9:09 pm
Re: WHEW!
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 11:20 am
Re: war wounds
npenney@erols.com -- 8/18/1998, 6:56 pm
Re: Tasteless.
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 5:30 pm
They did great Mark.
Mike -- 8/19/1998, 12:38 pm
Re: They did great Mark.
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 11:05 am
Pardon me - but what the F*CK
Brian C. -- 8/18/1998, 3:49 pm
Re: Profane vulgar over-reactions.
npenney@erols.com -- 8/18/1998, 6:55 pm
apologize for profanity, but I still stand on the isssue
Brian C. -- 8/19/1998, 11:11 am
Re: Profane vulgar over-reactions.
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 7:24 pm
Shock Value
Paul Lund -- 8/19/1998, 7:04 am
Re: Pardon me - but what the F*CK
jim champoux -- 8/18/1998, 4:04 pm
seek help
Brian C. -- 8/18/1998, 4:11 pm
Re: Pardon me...
Don Beale -- 8/18/1998, 3:54 pm
Trying to _avoid_ accidents here not celebrate
Brian C. -- 8/18/1998, 4:01 pm
Amazing engineering Brian, lighten up.
Mike -- 8/19/1998, 12:27 pm
Re: Amazing engineering Brian, lighten up.
Mark Kanzler -- 8/20/1998, 12:07 am
Amazing engineering Brian - Thanks :)
Brian C -- 8/19/1998, 11:15 am
Re: Amazing Brian - We'll get yer raise...
Mark Kanzler -- 8/20/1998, 12:12 am
that's OK just send me the money
Brian C. -- 8/20/1998, 12:52 am
Re: that's OK just send me the money
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 5:03 pm
Re: Amazing engineering Brian, lighten up.
Paul Lund -- 8/19/1998, 6:36 am
Re: Thumb Mis-take
Don Beale -- 8/19/1998, 1:01 pm
Re: Thumb Mis-take
Ross Leidy -- 8/19/1998, 1:22 pm
YEEOWW!
Mike Spence -- 8/19/1998, 1:12 pm
Re: YEEOWW!
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 4:58 pm
Re: war wounds
Ross Leidy -- 8/18/1998, 3:44 pm
Re: sheer clamp installation help
NPenney -- 8/18/1998, 11:42 am
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Mark Kanzler -- 8/19/1998, 12:50 am
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Shawn Baker -- 8/18/1998, 10:07 am
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/18/1998, 9:06 am
Re: sheer clamp installation help
Mark Bodnar -- 8/17/1998, 8:33 pm