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Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
By:Marc Upchurch
Date: 12/10/2014, 7:32 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp (rich)

Good luck with that!!!!

My shear clamp is another piece of 1/4" thick cedar - another strip.
Set higher than the outside strip, filed to the angle of the deck as it joins the gunwale. Epoxied to seal the wood, then thickened epoxy on the edge of the gunwale strip and the clamp (with plenty of excess).
Let it squeeze out and leave it except for around the cockpit where you can reach it.
I initially was copying ET, so no inside glass. Seems to hold up just fine.

My take is that you don't need 3/4" clamps

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Using a sheer clamp
rich -- 12/8/2014, 8:35 am
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Bill Hamm -- 12/8/2014, 11:42 am
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Etienne Muller -- 12/8/2014, 3:12 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
rich -- 12/8/2014, 3:44 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp *PIC*
Justin -- 12/8/2014, 3:59 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Bill Hamm -- 12/8/2014, 3:36 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Jay Babina -- 12/8/2014, 4:33 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Etienne Muller -- 12/8/2014, 4:44 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
JohnAbercrombie -- 12/8/2014, 11:26 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Bill Hamm -- 12/9/2014, 12:22 am
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
rich -- 12/9/2014, 7:11 am
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Marc Upchurch -- 12/10/2014, 7:32 pm
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
Bill Hamm -- 12/11/2014, 8:37 am
Re: Strip: Using a sheer clamp
rich -- 12/11/2014, 2:27 pm