JJ

18/03/2006 6:41 PM

INFO - Clamping Tips

http://www.clampingtips.com/

This is for you guys who think you've got to have a whole load of
the world's most expensive clamps before you can operate. Personally,
most of my clamps are homemade cam clamps, from about 12" to 48".



JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear". What do you
"know"?.
- Granny Weatherwax


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"CW"

in reply to [email protected] (J T) on 18/03/2006 6:41 PM

19/03/2006 6:03 PM

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Kryptonite.

"Australopithecus scobis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:41:19 -0500, J T opined:
>
> > most of my clamps are homemade cam clamps, from about 12" to 48".
>
> What do you use for the bar? Hardwood or mild steel? Aluminum bar?
>
> --
> "Keep your ass behind you"
> wreck20051219 at spambob.net
>

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Australopithecus scobis

in reply to [email protected] (J T) on 18/03/2006 6:41 PM

19/03/2006 5:25 PM

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:41:19 -0500, J T opined:

> most of my clamps are homemade cam clamps, from about 12" to 48".

What do you use for the bar? Hardwood or mild steel? Aluminum bar?

--
"Keep your ass behind you"
wreck20051219 at spambob.net

JJ

in reply to Australopithecus scobis on 19/03/2006 5:25 PM

19/03/2006 3:22 PM

Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 5:25pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(Australopithecus=A0scobis) mumbles:
What do you use for the bar? Hardwood or mild steel? Aluminum bar?

Two words. Ply wood. I figure my clamps probably average out at
about $.25 U.S. each, possibly less, possibly more. No way more than
about $1 each, using new plywood.

But, you use whatever you want.

I've posted plans for cam clamps at least twice, probably more.
Check the archives. And, of course, you probably don't have that link.
So:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?as_ugroup=3Drec.woodworking=
&lr=3D&num=3D30

Or, just google for cam clamp plans. By the way, I use the cam
clamp principle in my planer sleds too. It ain't rocket science.



JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear". What do you
"know"?.
- Granny Weatherwax

AG

Art Greenberg

in reply to Australopithecus scobis on 19/03/2006 5:25 PM

20/03/2006 9:31 PM

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:22:27 -0500, J T wrote:
> I've posted plans for cam clamps at least twice, probably more. Check
> the archives.

J T, the links you posted are old, and now dead. The SSUG website has
apparently been reorganized, and there is little there any more.

--
Art

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Australopithecus scobis

in reply to Australopithecus scobis on 19/03/2006 5:25 PM

21/03/2006 2:55 PM

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:22:27 -0500, J T opined:

> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?as_ugroup=rec.woodworking&lr=&num=30
>
> Or, just google for cam clamp plans. By the way, I use the cam
> clamp principle in my planer sleds too. It ain't rocket science.

Yep, and I'd even saved your pics in my "stuff to build" directory. The
question was simply a terse way of saying, "please add slightly more
information to your comment so that newbies who haven't seen your cam
clamp posts will have a better notion of how easy they are to build."

--
"Keep your ass behind you"
wreck20051219 at spambob.net

Lr

"Leon"

in reply to [email protected] (J T) on 18/03/2006 6:41 PM

19/03/2006 1:36 PM


"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> http://www.clampingtips.com/
>
> This is for you guys who think you've got to have a whole load of
> the world's most expensive clamps before you can operate. Personally,
> most of my clamps are homemade cam clamps, from about 12" to 48".

Fancy clamps are for straightening out the bow in a board while the glue
dries. :~)


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