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    Sash clamps from library furniture

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    I thought that you might like to see some clamps I made from salvaged library furniture.
    The bars are the upstands, with slots for the shelving brackets, originally T-shaped, so I removed one leg, and cut down the other to make an L-shape. This is mild steel box section, the walls too thin to support a thread. So what I did, after drill a hole to tap, was to insert a dowel, and pour in molten lead. Have you ever tried to tap lead? It’s a b————r! (This is a technical term meaning it’s difficult)
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    Here you can see that the thread goes through the leg( an arm now). The head is a block of maple, to which are fixed two screws to run in a slot cut in the bar. The thread has a split pin through it ,with washers each side, running in a slot in the side of the head. The tommy bars are just mild steel bolts, salvaged from somewhere, the nuts are also epoxied on to the threaded rod.
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    Here is the foot, which is the steel shelving bracket, which has three lugs, sandwiched between two pieces of maple.

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    I made 8. They have had a lot of use.

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    Thanks Philip Davies! We've added your Sash Clamps to our Clamps category,
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    Love the styling on the foot :-) Great idea...I might even have some of that shelf bracket laying about in my shop...



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