Shop Made Hold Downs And Clamps

[jpfabricator]

Ok... let's see your shop made hold downs and clamps! Anything you made special for a specific job to everyday clamps. From fit and pretty to quick and ugly, don't be shy!

Sent from somwhere in east Texas by Jake!

 

[jpfabricator]

Here's one that came with the K&T.



Sent from somwhere in east Texas by Jake!

 

[Bob Korves]

No pics, Jake...

 

[intjonmiller]

Following...

 

[JimDawson]

OK, I'll bite

MDF ''step-clamps'' to hold a piece of plywood in place.


How to hold a glass bottle on a mill



A quick clamp to re-work a part, made out of a drop.




Holding a UHMW cylinder in the vice

 

[MozamPete]

When I needed to mill a spline in a shaft I made a quick dead centre from a piece of angle iron with a slotted hole and a bolt with the end turned done to a 60deg point.
I also locktighted a drilled out nut to the shaft for indexing of the 6 splines as I rotated the shaft. Worked surprisingly well.

 

[RCWorks]

I don't have one yet, but once my CNC mill/router is up I will have to make one for the electronics encloses I use for my products which will have 8 screws holding the front and back of the chassis to a piece of plate bolted to the table.

Currently I hand mill everything but demand is catching up to the speed at which I can produce. For me it won't be a choice but a need. I'm glad it's going that direction and not the other.

 

[RCWorks]

Thanks for the look at holding UHMW cylinders. I am working on a logic probe to be made of a similar material.

 

[Uglydog]

I believe this is the manure bucket bracket from a small barn trolley system.
Well, at least it was in the pile of rusting parts from that system.
Regardless, plan is to fit T nuts and threaded rod to make a large C clamp for weldments.
She has a 1/2inch slot between the two pieces of flat bar which comprise the shell.
I figure that I can make and place multiple thread mechanisms.
Problem is that I haven't needed it since I found her!
Isn't that the way it goes...

Daryl
MN

 

[pstemari]

Here's some little jack screw clamps I made for the Taig. Unfortunately I don't have photos of making the slots.

Setup using a piece of steel strap to lift up from the table:


Milling the sides made a lot of nasty needle-like swarf:



The nuts ensure that the screws don't botton out in the t-nuts:


Size was a bit off:


Checking the alignment of the packing, not quite right:


Ah, much better:


And the finished product: