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Date: 8/18/1998, 11:45 am
For even cheaper (and therefore more) nuts and bolts and such, check out an agricultural supply store. They generally sell hardware by the pound. TSC near me sells it for $1.19 a pound. Which is a whole lot less than 25 cents a bolt.
> The bolts were about 25 cents each, the nuts were 4 cents, and
> I put a washer under the side with the nut so I wouldn't tear up the
> wood as I turned the nut. The washers were another 2 cents each. I
> used carriage bolts, and they bit into the wood enough so that they
> did not spin. If I had machine bolts on hand I would have used them,
> with another washer under the head of the bolt. The hardware store
> cost was under 35 cents per clamp, and after using them I could always
> recycle the parts into other projects. In fact, I think the nuts and
> washers I used were already recycled from a different project--which
> was why I had them on hand.
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: Inside edge?
- Inside edge?
- Re: I set mine flush with the top
- 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: cheaper yet
- 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
- Re: war wounds
- Re: war wounds
- 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
- Re: They did great Mark.
- 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: Profane vulgar over-reactions.
- 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: that's OK just send me the money
- that's OK just send me the money
- 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
- YEEOWW!
- Re: Thumb Mis-take
- Amazing engineering Brian - Thanks :)
- Re: Amazing engineering Brian, lighten up.
- Amazing engineering Brian, lighten up.
- apologize for profanity, but I still stand on the isssue
- Re: war wounds
Ross Leidy -- 8/18/1998, 3:44 pm - Re: WHEW!
- Re: war wounds
- Re: war wounds
- Re: Be Carful, don't get bit
- 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 - Re: Be Carful, don't get bit
- Re: sheer clamp installation help
- Re: sheer clamp installation help
- Re: time vs money
- Re: time vs money
