Self Aligning Clamp Pad

**Toolmaker51** · Oct 8, 2018, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by billster

Since I've put aside my metalworking for a while, and am concentrating on woodworking (guitars, ukuleles, basses), I decided that hardwood and plastic (Delrin, nylon, urethane) clamp pads of this design would be helpful in those builds.

I think the body and swivel could be dense, oiled hardwood, and many suppliers offer plastic spheres. Not sure how to retain them, wood isn't known to stake very well. Maybe a thin punched metal or plastic frame?

**CharlesWaugh** · Oct 9, 2018, 09:05 PM

Can you make ME one?
:-)

I love it!

**Ralphxyz** · Oct 10, 2018, 07:47 AM

On my list, I have a variety of Delrin balls on the way.

Ralph

**Toolmaker51** · Oct 11, 2018, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by CharlesWaugh

Can you make ME one?
:-)

I love it!

Uh, no.
Not one anyway. Making the sector is best done as a single turning then sawn in half. However, compile a list of buyers; yours could be free. I could mail them flat rate USPS anywhere in the contiguous US. This applies to version depicted, metallic not plastic.