An interesting idea for making a clamp with your own hands
When working in a garage or workshop, a vice is often not enough. It is much more convenient to process many, especially long parts, pressing them against a workbench. You can make a simple page specifically for this.
Materials:
- Profile pipe 20x40 mm;
- rods 14 mm;
- M14 nuts – 2 pcs.;
- M6 screw with countersunk head;
- pressure plate.
Clamp manufacturing process
To make a clamp, you need to prepare a section of 200 mm profile pipe and 2 200 mm rods. One of them has an M14 thread cut to a length of 50-60 mm using a die. You will also need 2 M14 nuts. The thread of one of them needs to be drilled so that the rod slides easily.
You need to weld nuts into the edges of the tube, having previously drilled it for their holes. Ideally, the nuts should have a large body and fit flush into the pipe.
A hole is drilled at the end of one rod on the thread side, and an M6 thread is cut into it.
Then a screw with a pressure plate is screwed into it.
A handle made of a rod is welded perpendicularly to the second end of the rod.
The rods are inserted into holes in the pipe.The resulting clamp works in tandem with a workbench, the tabletop of which has 14 mm perforations.
The smooth rod of the clamp is inserted into the hole in the table, then by screwing in the second one, you can press it with a plate. As a result of the formation of a distortion, the first rod and the tube on it do not slide off, so the clamp is powerful.
