Spark plug
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ive been tasked with makeing some clamps for laminating timber.
So the probloem is he needs something that will exert lots of force and have a large travel. He's tried just about all the commercially available options with limited success. It would also help if each clamp exerted pressure from doth sides of the job to prevent twisting.
I made him one a while ago with some 75x12 flat I had lying arround and some 20mm stud bar. Basicly with the two pices of that prsitiond either side of the workpiece pulled together by the two stud bars.
This worked well but found that the threads of the stud bar got damaged by the hole in the flat as they where tightening.
Has anyone got any ideas for a better design or something they have done in the past for a similar probloem?
So the probloem is he needs something that will exert lots of force and have a large travel. He's tried just about all the commercially available options with limited success. It would also help if each clamp exerted pressure from doth sides of the job to prevent twisting.
I made him one a while ago with some 75x12 flat I had lying arround and some 20mm stud bar. Basicly with the two pices of that prsitiond either side of the workpiece pulled together by the two stud bars.
This worked well but found that the threads of the stud bar got damaged by the hole in the flat as they where tightening.
Has anyone got any ideas for a better design or something they have done in the past for a similar probloem?