Pads for sash clamps

[Jim_Nutt]

Hi,

I have a load of clamps, a bit like this:

https://www.screwfix.com/p/sash-clamp-24/23233

and I'd like to get some pads for them so they don't damage the wood, however searching online doesn't seem to yield any good results.

Can anyone advise me on where I can get some or make my own perhaps?

Thanks,

Jim

 

[NazNomad]

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/6006840? ... gIvoPD_BwE


... or just use a strip of wood?

 

[Jim_Nutt]

Thanks NazNomad; I never thought of Argos!

Jim

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I use small pieces of ply stuck on with hot melt - it saves needing a third hand and they can be easily knocked off if need be for any reason.

 

[Peter Sefton]

I just use bits of MDF or strips of solid depending on the glue up, I have seen rare earth magnets in blocks to help hold them on the cramp heads.

Cheers Peter

 

[galleywood]

Search for Paul Seller's website and his video of adding rigidity and pads to those types of clamps.

 

[Mr T]

You could make some of these http://www.christribefurniturecourses.com/index.php/tip-magnetic-cramp-heads/

I usually give some away at the Harrogate show but I don't think I will have time to do any this year.

Chris

 

[NazNomad]

Search for Paul Seller's website and his video of adding rigidity and pads to those types of clamps.

... and his great tip for filing the corners off the hole to make it slide easier. I'll be doing that with mine tomorrow.

 

[Steve Maskery]

You could make some of these http://www.christribefurniturecourses.com/index.php/tip-magnetic-cramp-heads/

I usually give some away at the Harrogate show but I don't think I will have time to do any this year.

Chris

And very good they are too. I'm ashamed to say that mine are currently being used as fridge magnets to display the bin collection rota...

 

[MattRoberts]

Cork Sheet - 1 Meter x 300 mm - 2 mm Thick https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B073X63WLV/ ... aAbWBTHMDN

 

[deema]

I prefer something like this

Item no 330967517128 on eBay. Self adhesive silicone rubber sheet 1.5mm thick

 

[MrTeroo]

Search for Paul Seller's website and his video of adding rigidity and pads to those types of clamps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyKiGmRq3wY

 

[MikeG.]

All those pads look too soft, in my view. Even ply. I use an off cut to spread the load over at least 3 or 4 times the area of the clamping faces.

Rather than where to get pads, I'm much more interested in where to buy spare pins. Three or 4 of mine (the old-fashioned T bar type) are without pins, and it doesn't look too professional to have screwdrivers sticking through them on a big glue-up!!

 

[undergroundhunter]

Mine all have 6mm ply superglued to them, cheap and easy to replace if i need to. I did have leather on them but found it bade a mess if I got glue on them. I also wax the bars quite regularly as it stops any glue sticking and makes everything move a bit easier.

Matt

 

[Andrewf]

I should get more organised, I end up just using whatever ioffcuts are aying on the floor at the time.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

All those pads look too soft, in my view. Even ply. I use an off cut to spread the load over at least 3 or 4 times the area of the clamping faces.

Rather than where to get pads, I'm much more interested in where to buy spare pins. Three or 4 of mine (the old-fashioned T bar type) are without pins, and it doesn't look too professional to have screwdrivers sticking through them on a big glue-up!!

Cotter pins?

 

[NazNomad]

I'm much more interested in where to buy spare pins.

http://www.recordpower.co.uk/category/clamp-spares

 

[MikeG.]

I'm much more interested in where to buy spare pins.

http://www.recordpower.co.uk/category/clamp-spares

Awesome, Nad, thanks.

 

[novocaine]

when I rip the edge of a sheet of MDF the 1" or so that's left gets cut in to small 1" square blocks, these get used for all sort of stuff from clamping cawls to jack blocks when painting. if they get a bit messy they get chucked. (I also have a tub of sticks from off cuts that get used for thin clamping cawls and paint/glue stir sticks)

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I remember reading something by Peter Kay where he gave numerous ways of knowing you were getting old - one of which was putting away long, thin pieces of wood to stir paint. I read this less than five minutes after I had put away long, thin pieces of wood to stir paint.