Cool! I see that the clamps are for sale in pieces and you assemble them? Neat idea! I made one like that in college for a class project. The project was about using as many machine tool processes as possible so we had to make everything, cut the threads for the screw, drill, tap etc. The hard part of the project was that the body pieces had to be filed in....my memory isn't perfect on this but I think we were given a cardboard pattern. We had to cut the blanks and then scribe the shape on them and then file the shapes in. I remember thinking that it was the stupidest thing in the world to "file in" something given all the modern machinery around us but worse yet we were graded on how close we were able to file our steel into the shape. I remember thinking well, of course it'll be graded but they'll HAVE to give you A LOT of room for error given the antiques we were expected to use to make it.... I was wrong about that. I was really good on the shop floor and the class was set up so that you could get a few extra points here and there and since I aced everything I could have turned in a clamp that had no attempt come close to the scribed lines and still ace the class but I found out that I didn't get every point on the clamp project because of the filing accuracy. As first I was kinda miffed until I weighed it all out. If I only knew then how much filing I'd end doing over the next 30ish years! LOL
What a great memory that brought on. Thank you so much for that! I really haven't found my clamp to be all that handy but that's partly because I always forget I have it. At the moment it's hanging on my wall as art. LOL
Thanks,
Wayne