Picked these clamps up a little ways back, used them for something, tossed them into a tool box I use for aluminum and vinyl siding tools. I came acrossd them this morning…..for the life of me, I can`t recall what specific task I purchased them for.
A cold brewskie to the first who responds with the correct answer!
EDIT: Sorry about the size of photo…I`m a wood geek, not a computer nerd!
J. D. Reynolds
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They are used to clamp suspended ceiling grid together temporarily. Also useful for clamping a stringline to ceiling grid or similar.
Make it a Dr Pepper.
Do it right, or do it twice.
BAAAAM! Nailed it on the first response! Dr. Pepper headin` yer way. Don`t do a whole lotta suspended ceilings...but now I remember the job I got em for.
Now, for extra credit...why the hell did I put em in my siding box?!J. D. Reynolds
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doin vinyl and using to hold channel together?
or it was just the closest tool box you could find at the time?Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
Because the other tool boxes are too full of other 'lost' gadgets. Might be a good rainly day project...clean out the tool boxes.Do it right, or do it twice.
You guys think you're so d### smart ! Anyone from Georgia knows that's a pecan cracker ! ! !
Sheesh !
Greg.
Lookin` forward to that rainy day....I`m currently adding on to my home. The addition will include a shop.....can`t wait to go through all of the various tool boxes, bags, buckets, crates, etc. and truly orginize. Every now and again I have my kids help sort through the half used boxes of fasteners...I hope they`re as anxious when it comes time to do the tools. J. D. Reynolds
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Lookin` forward to that rainy day....I`m currently adding on to my home. The addition will include a shop.....can`t wait to go through all of the various tool boxes, bags, buckets, crates, etc. and truly orginize. Every now and again I have my kids help sort through the half used boxes of fasteners...I hope they`re as anxious when it comes time to do the tools.
JAY
Same as you my brother. I have a 40'x8'x8' metal storage container comin' this Tuesday that I'll be renting by the month to keep all my tools and crap in.
Knocking down a fifty year old addition that was put on my 1680 house.
Gonna add on a 30x30' shop (Katrina thinks its a 3 car garage...heh heh) that'll have a second floor above it with a door into a new puter room attached to the master bedroom......I so can't wait !!!!!! I've always had a shop in cramped quarters. And hey......theres an inground pool only fifty feet away.....am I in heaven yet or what?
Be in heaven on earth
Namaste
andy
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> (Katrina thinks its a 3 car garage...heh heh)
DW doesn`t understand why there are so many outlets in our new "garage".....nor why they`re all set at 48" from floor? SSHHHHHHHHHHHHH! : )J. D. Reynolds
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exactlyyyyyyyyy heh heh
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Now, for extra credit...why the hell did I put em in my siding box?!
Uh... so you could clamp on a solid and lasting pinch every time you thought about using vinyl on a "fine home?"
To hold together all the photocopied pages of the "How to do Vinyl Siding Correctly" article from your favorite issue of FHB? I'm sure the loop would be convenient for hanging the article from a nearby nail for frequent reference.
To clamp your nostrils shut while cutting fiber cement?
To hold the nails so you wouldn't smash your thumb trying to drive them through fiber cement?
A little extra leverage for when you find yourself going bankrupt doing nothing but siding jobs and you have to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" again?
A hat brim clamp for dangling a note reading, "I love my job" in front of you so you could remember why you keep doing this stuff? I was going to suggest a dollar bill but reality prevailed.
In all seriousness (yea right... maybe some day) Did it have something to do with a brilliant way of holding pieces of flashing together or something?Kevin Halliburton
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity." - I.M. Pei -
No, no, no. If you look carefully at the pads of the clamp, you will see a small alignment mark. Clamp this on your tape measure, aligned with the first black diamond on the tape. Place the other clamp carefully aligned over the third black diamond on the tape. Now carefully use your level to balance this, one black diamond over the handrail, one on the newel post. Then use drywall screws to attach to the wall.
I'm gonna sell these for $170 at Home Depot!
Bet you were doin some work with copper..........
I thought they were testicular torture devices.When all else fails, use duct tape!
That's a cool pencil! I think the clamps are just like the one Arnold Schwartzinegger used in the movie "Total Recall" to pull that golf ball out of his nose. I could be wrong, it's happened before.
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Great pic!!
PS: Thank God that extraneous "I" in Schwartzenegger didn't fing it's way a coupla letters over.....
Mike
Heh...I know what mean. It was hard to keep it out since I usually pronounce it with an "I" in the place of that second to last "E".
Industrial strength nipple clamps?
Punk rock earrings for folks with commitment issues?
Clamping a stack of vinyl so it can be cut to length as a unit?
Mike
String clamps for suspended ceiling
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I'm sure inventive folks could find lots of uses for these little cam clamps. I've seen the roofing guys use something like that to hold/lift sheets of copper and aluminum, and, the ceiling guys use them to lift sections of "grid" up to be wired in: things that are thin that have to be mechanically grabbed without marring them
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
I think its something used in abortions
Be scarey lookin
Namastooooowwwwwwwwwww
Andy
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Close, but no cigar.
Prostate surgery. A good heart embiggins even the smallest person.
Quittin' Time
yer crazy man! LOL
Jaybird,
that thing there in the middle is a pencil - they used to use them for drafting and such. You'll have to carve the wood off the end to expose the graphite and it should be pretty obvious from there.
Kevin Halliburton
"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity." - I.M. Pei -
He's gonna dull his knife on that metal thingy, isn't he ?
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Quittin' Time
No, no no Luka! wrong end! that little red button with the metal ferrule is what would be referred to in today's terms as a backspace or delete key. It's the other end that's used for creatin' the errors in the first place.
Believe it or not I've still got a cordless grinder that was designed for nothing more than tearing the wood off the end of those things and honing the graphite to a point. Pretty slick tool for an antique but it doesn't work on the flat carpenters pencils and it takes up a lot of room in my pouch so I mostly just hang on to it for sentimental value now days.
It is useful for honing a nice sharp point on a 3/8" wooden dowel when I need to poke myself in the eye to work up a tear for an old drafting geezer who thinks computers have ruined the "art" of drafting.
Kevin Halliburton
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Edited 5/31/2003 1:44:18 PM ET by wrecked angle
Carve the wood you say? I just thought it was outta ink.J. D. Reynolds
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take the pads off and it becomes a roachclip.
What's a roachclip? :O)
Ken Hill
Bwahahahahha
In his first interview since the stroke, Ram Dass, 66, spoke with great difficulty about how his brush with death has changed his ideas about aging, and how the recent loss of two old friends, Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, has convinced him that now, more than ever, is the time to ``Be Here Now.''
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM