Popular Woodworking 2005-08 № 149, страница 25

Improve Your Clamp Pads with Magnets and Tape

After too many times of struggling to glue up projects while juggling project parts, clamps and clamp pads, I realized I could make at least one part of the operation a lot easier by simply improving my clamp pads.

I start by making my clamp pads from thick pieces of MDF with the edges slightly chamfered. I make most of my pads l¹^" wide and 2V4" long. I drill a recess into one face of each pad, and epoxy a Vi'-diameter rare earth disk magnet into it, making sure that the face of the magnet is slightly recessed from the face of the pad. The magnets hold the pads to the jaws of my metal clamps tenaciously, eliminating one set of loose items that have to be held in position during glue up. I further improved the pads by wrapping them with plastic packing tape to resist excess glue.

Ken Burton New Tripoli, Pennsylvania

A Helping Hand at Motor Alignment

I've never had a fun time aligning and adjusting the pulleys and belt tension on contractors' saws. It seems I always need an extra pair of hands to hold the motor in place after adjusting everything. When I try to tighten the motor bracket bolts, the belt tension always seems to pull everything out of whack.

However, the last time I was making these painful adjustments, my gaze landed on a one-handed clamp that was set up as a spreader. A light went on, and I was soon using the one-handed clamp as a temporary jack under the motor bracket to support the weight of the motor while I tightened the fittings. PW

David Thiel

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Use a spreader clamp as a temporary motor support

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