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Not mine, I found this on Reddit. But it's certainly a useful idea. Could also be done sideways from a heavy workbench. The other day I used an extra-heavy pool noodle as a pressure device between a wall and a surface where there was no way to clamp otherwise.
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Why can't the steel I-beam hold up the wooden beam ?
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Great work around, have to try and remember it if I have the same problem. Kinda like how guitar makers use flexible strips of wood wedged between the ceiling and guitar when gluing the body together.
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Necessity is truly the mother of invention!
I've seen a trick where you use a piece of scrap for a clamp extender. You measure the length of clamp needed and subtract the length of two of your existing clamps. Then you drill a 1" hole on each end of the scrap. Put one end of each clamp on the work and the other end in the hole in the scrap. I haven't needed to try it, but it looked like it should work with some fiddling. (Myself, I'd grab a pipe clamp.)
Fred
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I made four weights each 20+ pounds using concrete. It was 25 years ago and I have used them sometimes... the last one just a couple of months ago.
Good innovation with what is on hand. Cool move.
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Hi, I bought 4 of the Bessey clamp extenders, that way I can simply link 2 together to make clamps that are longer.
They work great, if I have a clamp is only a little bit short, I can link a short one to it, if I need a long one I can link that to it.
They give you a longer clamp that's not way too long to be easily used.............Rod.
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I've used pocket screws a couple times when I didn't have enough big clamps.
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I keep a few bricks. Sometimes are very handy for glue ups.
Charlie Jones
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Fluorescent ballasts make great weights, and they are flat on the bottom.
Rick Potter
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I use a hydraulic jack in a way similar to how you are using the clamp.
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Am I the only one totally "fascinated" by the way that old building is framed? I just can't stop looking at it.
Of all the laws Brandolini's may be the most universally true.
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Your bandsaw weighs more when you leave the spring compressed instead of relieving the tension.
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This got me thinking about Louis Sauzedde (Tips from a Shipwright). He uses some "bricks" cast out of lead as clamp substitutes frequently. I'm amazed he hasn't gotten lead poisoning using those things...
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Well, he's probably not chewing on them, just a guess though and I really don't know what he might be into.
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