Jan.04,1980 >> CLAMPS

[John R Fortiner]

Ron:  Just a big THANKS for the clamping tip.
John R. Fortiner

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 18:09:48 -0600 Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
writes:
> >Geez you just can't do anything right huh?  It should be "and to 
> whom am I 
> >speaking" Please!
> >:-)
> >Jim Bryant (FL)
> 
> 
> Well, you got me there, and since no traffic is apparently better 
> than non
> technical traffic... here's a little technical tip from your Uncle 
> Ron so's
> I don't lose my place in line.
> 
> Either galvanized iron pipe is getting softer, or I've lost all 
> contact
> with any level of finesse (Yea, Jim, I know, and any trace of social
> propriety too), but I have finally gotten tired of bending pipe 
> clamps and
> did something about it. I went to my local salvage yard during last 
> week's
> bandsaw modification shopping trip and picked up some steel rod of 
> an
> appropriate diameter. I cut it into the lengths I needed, threaded 
> one end
> of each piece, and assembled a half dozen killer/masher clamps 
> suitable for
> putting ridiculous levels of pressure on small defenseless objects. 
> The
> final result is a lot heavier than the engineered spec, but I should 
> be
> able to do considerably more damage with these.
>  
> Ron N