Любому, кому приходилось мастерить что-нибудь with their own hands in the direction of improvement of their own homes, there is no need to talk about the importance of all sorts of clamps and clamps. Without their presence it is impossible to imagine both carpentry and metalwork craft. To process any part with high quality, a clamp is required. With your own hands, it is quite possible to make it at home with the help of the most elementary tools.
Types and types of clamps
Mechanical clamping devices vary in purpose, and the material from which they are made. The main source materials are metal profile and wooden beam.
Sometimes clamps are collected rather complicatedspatial configuration: they provide both horizontal and vertical compression of the workpiece. For assembly of joiner's products when constant control of a right angle is necessary, the corner clamp is very convenient. It’s quite possible to do it yourself, but it’s better to practice on less complex structures.
Clamps differ in the type of elementscreating mechanical compression. The most common are clamps on the basis of a screw mechanism. But everything that is capable of providing the necessary compression force can be suitable for the construction. Up to the rubber harnesses cut from old car chambers.
Why not just buy them?
In any tool shop clamppresented in a more or less wide range. Yes, and any master in their arsenal has a sufficient amount. What usually stops the craftsman from buying another? First, the price - a quality tool can not be cheap already by definition. Secondly, it is not always possible to find the necessary. The clamp, made by hand with a specific task, provides the process of assembling the product individually. With the help of a universal clamp from the tool shop, this is not always possible.
The disadvantages of the standard tool
На строительном рынке можно найти немало clamps that look like real and are expensive, only work very long. They are usually made in China. They will have to be thrown after the money that was paid for them. The screw gear most often fails, it is made of cheap low-quality alloy. If there is no desire to throw money into the wind, then you should think about how to make a clamp with your own hands. The result will be not only one more useful thing in the master's instrumental arsenal, but also an increased level of qualification and self-esteem.
Clamp do-it-yourself: what is needed for its manufacture
First of all, you need to get qualityA hardwood timber bar or a metal rolling section (best of all, channel section) is the basis on which the stop and the screw mechanism should be mounted. The most important element of the clamp is he. A bolt with a nut of a large thread profile is best suited. To assemble the structure as a whole, you will need a drill with nozzles and a standard bolt fastener. Making your own clamps does not require outstanding qualifications, but you still should have elementary carpentry and metalwork skills.
We make a clamp
The most important advantage of a homemade clampis its narrow focus on the provision of a specific technological operation. That is why it is necessary to carefully measure everything and outline a schematic drawing of the future product. A clamp made with your own hands can and should last for a very long time, but this will only happen if it is properly designed and properly assembled.
On the bearing bed beam should bemounted stop and screw mechanism. The free stroke of the screw provides sufficient force for compression. The fastening of the anvil and the screw with the nut must exclude their tearing out from the fixed position at the application of technological force. The important point is the presence of a flywheel mounted on the head of the technological screw. If it is not foreseen and not completed, the clamp will have to be compressed with a wrench. What is not productive, and not functional.
For the purpose of the possible use of a clamp as much as possiblein a larger number of operations, the emphasis on it is usually performed in the form of a removable block, which can be put in several fixed positions. To assemble large wooden planes, it makes sense to construct a more complex clamp in the form of a system of two or more screws mounted on the same bedding base. The effort invested in the manufacture of technological tools, always give the proper return when using it.
