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| Don Stauffer... |
 Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:45 am |
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At a recent club meeting the subject was tools, and folks brought in
their best or favorites. One guy bought in some neat clamps he paid 8
bucks apiece for. Someone said the local Harbor Freights had a very
similar clamp for a buck each.
I went there and picked up three of these things. They are "bar"
clamps, about six inches long. These are the kind you press a button to
make large changes in size, then press a "trigger repeatedly to build up
force. The teeth are VERY fine, meaning you can control the clamp
pressure very nicely.
I have not tried it on a model yet, but they should work a lot better
than any other clamps I have, and the price was right! |
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| willshak... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:05 am |
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on 10/30/2009 10:45 AM (ET) Don Stauffer wrote the following:
Quote: At a recent club meeting the subject was tools, and folks brought in
their best or favorites. One guy bought in some neat clamps he paid 8
bucks apiece for. Someone said the local Harbor Freights had a very
similar clamp for a buck each.
I went there and picked up three of these things. They are "bar"
clamps, about six inches long. These are the kind you press a button
to make large changes in size, then press a "trigger repeatedly to
build up force. The teeth are VERY fine, meaning you can control the
clamp pressure very nicely.
I have not tried it on a model yet, but they should work a lot better
than any other clamps I have, and the price was right!
I bought a lot of clamps from Harbor Freight. I have the kind you
describe and also a pack of these for modeling.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=8826
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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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| someone at (no spam) some.domain... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:22 pm |
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In article <4aeafc23$0$87071$815e3792 at (no spam) news.qwest.net>, Don Stauffer <stauffer at (no spam) usfamily.net> wrote:
Quote: At a recent club meeting the subject was tools, and folks brought in
their best or favorites. One guy bought in some neat clamps he paid 8
bucks apiece for. Someone said the local Harbor Freights had a very
similar clamp for a buck each.
I went there and picked up three of these things. They are "bar"
clamps, about six inches long. These are the kind you press a button to
make large changes in size, then press a "trigger repeatedly to build up
force. The teeth are VERY fine, meaning you can control the clamp
pressure very nicely.
I have not tried it on a model yet, but they should work a lot better
than any other clamps I have, and the price was right!
the big versions of those are excellent for wood joinery.
good to know they make model sizes. |
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| Rufus... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:38 pm |
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Don Stauffer wrote:
Quote: At a recent club meeting the subject was tools, and folks brought in
their best or favorites. One guy bought in some neat clamps he paid 8
bucks apiece for. Someone said the local Harbor Freights had a very
similar clamp for a buck each.
I went there and picked up three of these things. They are "bar" clamps,
about six inches long. These are the kind you press a button to make
large changes in size, then press a "trigger repeatedly to build up
force. The teeth are VERY fine, meaning you can control the clamp
pressure very nicely.
I have not tried it on a model yet, but they should work a lot better
than any other clamps I have, and the price was right!
You can get similar ones at Sears - except they aren't geared...they
sort of inch-worm along when you pull the trigger. They're smaller
versions of the larger woodworking clamps.
....but I still like my Berna Assemblers better than anything.
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| someone at (no spam) some.domain... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:18 pm |
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In article <YiOGm.114872$la3.16633 at (no spam) attbi_s22>, Rufus <not at (no spam) home.com> wrote:
Quote: Don Stauffer wrote:
At a recent club meeting the subject was tools, and folks brought in
their best or favorites. One guy bought in some neat clamps he paid 8
bucks apiece for. Someone said the local Harbor Freights had a very
similar clamp for a buck each.
I went there and picked up three of these things. They are "bar" clamps,
about six inches long. These are the kind you press a button to make
large changes in size, then press a "trigger repeatedly to build up
force. The teeth are VERY fine, meaning you can control the clamp
pressure very nicely.
I have not tried it on a model yet, but they should work a lot better
than any other clamps I have, and the price was right!
You can get similar ones at Sears - except they aren't geared...they
sort of inch-worm along when you pull the trigger. They're smaller
versions of the larger woodworking clamps.
....but I still like my Berna Assemblers better than anything.
what's that url again, kind sir? |
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