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Re: Tools: Steel or Plastic spring clamps?
By:Randy
Date: 2/13/2015, 8:21 am
In Response To: Re: Tools: Steel or Plastic spring clamps? (Etienne Muller)

Metal spring clamps are great, use them all the time to hold adjacent strips in surface alignment. I have a whole bin full of plastic spring clamps that never get used. The ends are to thick to fit most places I need them. The clamp I use almost exclusively to compress strip edges together are bungees. I buy them by the can full. They are about 8" long and 3/16" diameter when relaxed. I cut short pieces of dowel that fit into the cove of my strips and hook the bungee over them so the cove edges don't get crushed. So much easier than taping, hot glue or bar clamps.

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Tools: Steel or Plastic spring clamps?
Wendell Nichols -- 2/12/2015, 10:40 am
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Etienne Muller -- 2/12/2015, 12:06 pm
Re: Tools: Steel or Plastic spring clamps? *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 2/12/2015, 12:07 pm
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Wendell Nichols -- 2/12/2015, 12:17 pm
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Justin -- 2/12/2015, 12:43 pm
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Dan Thaler -- 2/12/2015, 2:12 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 2/12/2015, 3:27 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 2/12/2015, 5:29 pm
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Dan Thaler -- 2/12/2015, 6:37 pm
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scottbaxter -- 2/12/2015, 7:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/12/2015, 8:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/12/2015, 8:38 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 2/13/2015, 4:56 am
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Randy -- 2/13/2015, 8:21 am
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Etienne Muller -- 2/13/2015, 9:31 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/13/2015, 11:55 am