Would you please give us a link for the UHMW tape, and data like brand, dimensions, has glue or adhesive backing? Thanks for a great pair of videos! My intended use for the UHMW tape (in addition to your proposed use), is to line sliding surfaces to reduce friction and "stick-slip" friction, like when making my DIY Track Saw from aluminum profile and needing the saw "sled carriage" for my circular saw to slide perfectly against the aluminum profile! Best regards from Mexico and let's keep designing and making those factory overexpensive accesories by ourselves!
8 times stronger sir! Re your: “makes it more than twice as strong”.. Bending resistance is width x height x height x height (times a constant for the material) Width in this case is the steel thickness x two (as there are two side walls) So: 2 times the height = 8 times stronger bending resistance. (2x2x2) 3 times higher = 27 times stronger The beam height makes all the difference 😎 Kind regards Anders Sweden
I've been in the construction business for nearly 50 years and never thought of using strut in my panel glue-ups. Thanks for the idea and you just got another subscriber.
Hey Lee! I’d like to say something positive about your videos! I would like to think that over 3/4 of your viewers are watching as like most beginners in a wood working shop we are constantly looking for a cheaper way to accomplish the goal of meeting our goals. Hinting to jigs as we all either take or make an idea to help assist us in our tasks. Adapt, improvise, and overcome obstacles in life in general. Unfortunately you got a bunch of folks that don’t like anything but their way. I’m sure you wanna tell them where to stick their comments as negative energy builds. Everyone has an idea or different approach to solve problems in life however you’re actually sharing it and shedding some light to it. I personally like your approach and believe it’s worth it. I can absolutely careless what others think. Creators like yourself deserve credit regardless of your videos. You among others are what inspires other ideas that maybe leads to something new or better. I encourage you to continue your quest and TRY really hard to stay clear of the negativity in comments. Your strength comes from your viewers that believe in YOU! Keep up the amazing content!!
great minds think alike. i came up with my own version of these after nearly choking to death on how much the rockler clamps cost a few years ago. I fabricated something very similar to the mechanism in the rocker clamps. That was a lot of work. I really like some of your ideas much better. 1-it’s quicker to modify a clamp, 2-Harbor Freight has cheap yet good clamps. I’m going to use your ideas when I need additional clamps.
Great solutions - I already have pipe clamps so using them with struts will work perfect and better than the wooden cauls that I use. I loved that stratocaster scene - got a good laugh out of it!
I’ve used your Superstrut cauls on several projects and they are genius! My only real problem has been squeezed-out glue sticking to them, so I am going to try the tape you recommend. The handle-nuts look like a good upgrade, too. Thanks for the great ideas!
I've been using this method too. I'm a retired plumber and had some laying around, so I gave it a try. I've never seen those square washers for strut before, so thanks for showing those. They'll be perfect. Subscribed.
There is nothing I can add 🤯 , but an additional comment for the algorithm. Exceptional channel… I mean above and beyond well edited and thought through videos. Very entertaining and informative. Great way to start my day and as long as I can achieve well jointed edges, I’ll know what to do from there. Thank you 🙏🏼 if I’m not subscribed, I will be now. Great sponsor choice too. 👍🏼
This is a great set of ideas. I never knew there was hardware available for these things and I appreciate the cost consciousness. I'll definitely keep it in mind should I find myself in the need. Thanks a bunch for sharing.
On your first video I thought to myself I have seen this before, as I have had those in my shop for years and don't know where I got the idea. But this video - hands down original, you knocked it out of the park.
Excelent video. Thank you for sharing these panel clamps. I have been on the verge of buying a couple of the Rockler sets every time I am in their store, this will save me.
What a coincidence, I made my superstrut cauls based on your other video just yesterday! Took me forever to find the video again, since I couldn't remember they were called cauls 😂
Perfect I’ve been considering making these but in my mind thought something is missing, now I know what. For thin panels .25 thick this is a perfect solution, and the wedges will work. For thicker panels the clamps will suffice, point being glue it up move it out of the way, get more done!
Lee you are the man! I dig anybody who innovates anything. Like I always told the new guys in the autobody shops I worked at when it came to tools, The bolt doesn't care or know what tool you got it out with. Keep up the good work and forget the haters. I made the ones you previously showed and they worked awesome at a fraction of the cost. You rock brother!
I think you can do a simpler solution than how you modified a G-clamp. Cut the head off an F-clamp and drill a hole big enough for the bolt to go through in the middle of the head, and put the bolt through. Tightening the F-clamp would provide pressure on both sides of the bolt due to the pivot point. I'd probably add a wooden braces to the screw piece (as you did on the G clamp) and also on the other end (where you cut). Fantastic research. Your last video had stuck in my head and I'd wanted to design custom end pieces, but you've shown that all you need is bolts, nut handles and F clamps.
this would be so much easier with a picture :). Ok, so you remove the head of an F clamp from the bar. Then you drill a hole in the middle of the f clamp head, between where the bar used to be and the turny handle thingumy is, thread the bolt through the hole. When you turn the handle it will push away from the boards as you tighten it, but that will cause the bar-end to pivot towards the boards, when it makes contact it will start applying even pressure at both ends. Probably worth padding out the "bar end" so that the head ends up approximately square when tightened.
@@SimonStevensakaSnetty interesting idea. Do you know of any drill bits that can penetrate that hardened steel? I probably snapped 20 bits making this video already 😂
Lessons, Tips & Techniques... it's all in here. and I have those Metals but without holes in it, .. I'll just put holes and use it in my Wall Mount Folding Table project. Thank you sir.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks for now I keep visualizing what to do to make an angle grinder slide using tubulars pipes without using wielding machine hehehe
Definitely some nice improvements on an already great idea. I know I'll be improving mine first chance I get. Thanks, Lee. One suggestion, maybe add blue tooth to them. That way they are more high tech than the store bought.
Strut actually come up to 20ft lengths, I can’t imagine having any use that long for your clamps. I LOVE INEXPENSIVE especially when it works as good or better than store bought.
FYI, the channels are a little bit stiffer with the open side down than the flat side down. In other words, the centers are going to lift a little bit less with the open sides against the work.
use two wedges with an angle of 5 to 7 degrees on each wedge. this keeps the flats of the wedges parallel to the edge of the panel and the wedges will not work loose.
The biggest problem that I find is that when I’m working on a project and need to strap something down, I don’t want to go fumbling through my shop, looking for strut, carriage bolts, c clamps to sacrifice to cut and drill, etc. I want everything at my disposal in a kit since most of the time, I am moving between job sites. It would really be cool to see a follow up video on how you organize in store all of this! Also, the ADHD in my wants to know what you did with the other half of the c clamps? 😂 what can you use those for now?
I'd agree with just keeping it all assembled, or alternately, all the galvanized or zinc coated metal parts would stick well to a cheap Harbor Freight magnetic strip.
If you double the height, it is close to 4 times as strong and not double. It is close 8 times as stiff. The stiffness is more critical than the strength for a situation like this.
wedging is the easiest way to exert entirely too much force. with a machinist c clamp style you can exert a force on the order of 10x invested. but with matched low angle wedges (like 6 to 1) you can exert 12 times effort invested. and if you apply a clamp to your matched wedges you're looking at 300 to 1 force applied. wedges are crazy.
Really great ideas. I was about to pick up the Fulton 4-way pressure clamps, but I think it'll be fun making yours. And if I add some plywood and a piano hinge, I might be able to make it a permanent attached to the wall solution. Hmmm.
The funny thing about all this is the original design is an alternative to expensive store bought clamps. Then the complaint is the cheap version doesn't have the same features. So then more money is spent to add to the design. There was a comment in there about 'no hardware', ignoring the fact that the strut is hardware and the f-clamps are hardware and the c-clamps are hardware. in the end it's an alternative to store bought clamp designed for the same thing. After some of those clamps are modified to be panel glue up clamps they can't be reused for anything else. There is not one solution to please everyone. You either keep generic pieces and put them together for the glue ups in a haphazard fashion, or you customize your clamp specifically to panel glue ups and nothing else. Each person has to decide if it is better for them and their workflow if they want pieces that are reusable in many processes but harder to assemble for each process or if they want specific tools that are optimized for specific processes.
@@scrager4 “No hardware” to me means no buying extraneous nuts and bolts and washers and stuff. Presumably the F clamps and squeeze clamps are things you already have, and you can still use them for their intended purpose on other projects.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks I understood it at that point, then it went down the road of modifying all those clamps specifically for cauls without other clamps and you basically made a home made version of the expensive rockler by buying and modifying clamps that can no longer be used for their original purpose. My observation is that you can either have strut channel with some clamps that you can reuse for other things and it might be a little cumbersome to set up pipe clamps and cauls. OR you can have a customized caul+clamp that is dedicated to panel glue ups and requires you to spend more money on dedicated hardware. BUT you can't have it both ways. All in all, I appreciate the video. I would go the caul and separate clamps route myself. I think that the dedicated caul+clamp would be for people that make more panels than anything else or people with money and space to dedicate to specific tools.
Great ideas, but what are the actual costs for a clamping system like this? Or better yet, where could I find someone getting rid of them? What industries use this stuff?
I have links in the description for sources, they all carry it. It’s used mostly in the electrical industry as I mentioned in the first video, so most electrical supply places would carry it as well.
Plumbers use it too. Try a plumbing supply house in your area. It'll only come in ten foot lengths, so you'll have to cut it to the size that you need. A sawsall with a metal blade does the trick.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Yes, I've seen that. Kind of spendy though. If you have a vice strut cuts pretty easy, and it's handy to have around. Take care.
@@Anonymoose361 depends on which setup you’re interested in; I show several in the video. There are links in the description for everything I talked about though.
If you are cranking down on the bolts enough to bend the bars in the middle, you are using too much pressure. Seriously, that much pressure is going to leave impressions in the wood. Why does anyone need that much pressure?
If you missed Part 1 of this video, here it is 😀 ruclips.net/video/vzhILT7axcA/видео.html
Would you please give us a link for the UHMW tape, and data like brand, dimensions, has glue or adhesive backing? Thanks for a great pair of videos!
My intended use for the UHMW tape (in addition to your proposed use), is to line sliding surfaces to reduce friction and "stick-slip" friction, like when making my DIY Track Saw from aluminum profile and needing the saw "sled carriage" for my circular saw to slide perfectly against the aluminum profile!
Best regards from Mexico and let's keep designing and making those factory overexpensive accesories by ourselves!
@@alfredomarquez9777 I will add a link to the description
This is awesome, a builder building their own tools again, like the old days :)
8 times stronger sir!
Re your: “makes it more than twice as strong”..
Bending resistance is width x height x height x height (times a constant for the material)
Width in this case is the steel thickness x two (as there are two side walls)
So: 2 times the height = 8 times stronger bending resistance. (2x2x2)
3 times higher = 27 times stronger
The beam height makes all the difference 😎
Kind regards
Anders
Sweden
@@tomfull6637 you are right, it’s not a constant ratio. I screwed up the math on this one. Anyway, the point was that it’s a lot stronger. 😉
I've been in the construction business for nearly 50 years and never thought of using strut in my panel glue-ups. Thanks for the idea and you just got another subscriber.
Welcome aboard David 🫡
This is one of the most underrated woodworking channels on RUclips. Everything you put out is incredible! Keep it up!
I agree! Waaaaay underrated 👇
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks and look at this. You're a man of the people!
You and Mathew Peech should do a video together!!
You are top notch!!
@@scottbyrd2157 I would do it! He probably doesn’t know I exist though 😂
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks you should reach out to him. You both could have a great video.
I've used this for the last 30 + years for plumbing drains, water lines, and gas lines, unit heaters etc. and now I have another use for it, thanks.
Many, many uses for this stuff!
Great solution my dude. With that added C clamp, you’ve made a full on wood torture device!
@@Stillworks hmm 🤔 you’ve just given me an idea…
There's always the joy of using the tools that you made on projects. It's a priceless feeling.
@@anthonyseiver7000 yeah, there’s a lot of satisfaction in it. Plus, more $$$ for wood!
Brilliant solutions! I especially like the wedges.
Can’t get more economical than that!
The wedges not being cool are why I like them so much!
@@scottreynoldsbuilder Wedges ARE cool!
@@scottreynoldsbuilder 😂
Hey Lee! I’d like to say something positive about your videos! I would like to think that over 3/4 of your viewers are watching as like most beginners in a wood working shop we are constantly looking for a cheaper way to accomplish the goal of meeting our goals. Hinting to jigs as we all either take or make an idea to help assist us in our tasks. Adapt, improvise, and overcome obstacles in life in general. Unfortunately you got a bunch of folks that don’t like anything but their way. I’m sure you wanna tell them where to stick their comments as negative energy builds. Everyone has an idea or different approach to solve problems in life however you’re actually sharing it and shedding some light to it. I personally like your approach and believe it’s worth it. I can absolutely careless what others think. Creators like yourself deserve credit regardless of your videos. You among others are what inspires other ideas that maybe leads to something new or better.
I encourage you to continue your quest and TRY really hard to stay clear of the negativity in comments. Your strength comes from your viewers that believe in YOU!
Keep up the amazing content!!
great minds think alike. i came up with my own version of these after nearly choking to death on how much the rockler clamps cost a few years ago. I fabricated something very similar to the mechanism in the rocker clamps. That was a lot of work. I really like some of your ideas much better. 1-it’s quicker to modify a clamp, 2-Harbor Freight has cheap yet good clamps. I’m going to use your ideas when I need additional clamps.
Yeah, used a lot of Harbor Freight clamps for the prototypes!
Great solutions - I already have pipe clamps so using them with struts will work perfect and better than the wooden cauls that I use. I loved that stratocaster scene - got a good laugh out of it!
The long album-cut version is in the first video 😁
A+ for all the hard work of testing and refining these ideas. the simplicity and economy of the result is impressive
It was definitely a lot of work
I’ve used your Superstrut cauls on several projects and they are genius! My only real problem has been squeezed-out glue sticking to them, so I am going to try the tape you recommend. The handle-nuts look like a good upgrade, too. Thanks for the great ideas!
That “Malecki” tape works great 😊
I've been using this method too. I'm a retired plumber and had some laying around, so I gave it a try. I've never seen those square washers for strut before, so thanks for showing those. They'll be perfect. Subscribed.
@@Gazman299 I use the no-spin saddle washers quite a bit actually.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks It was a good video. Thanks again.
Good job handling the haters out there. Keep up the good work 👍
Thanks, will do!
There is nothing I can add 🤯 , but an additional comment for the algorithm. Exceptional channel… I mean above and beyond well edited and thought through videos. Very entertaining and informative. Great way to start my day and as long as I can achieve well jointed edges, I’ll know what to do from there. Thank you 🙏🏼 if I’m not subscribed, I will be now. Great sponsor choice too. 👍🏼
So nice of you to say. Made my day!
Very good 2nd video. I've been using spur shelving rods as a kinda substitute for the parts you use. Works OK
@@clemmcguinness1087 interesting idea 💡
This is a great set of ideas. I never knew there was hardware available for these things and I appreciate the cost consciousness. I'll definitely keep it in mind should I find myself in the need. Thanks a bunch for sharing.
@@jazbuilding you’re very welcome. Thanks for watching!
Great refinements. I wouldn't have considered wedges for this setup, good tip!
Yeah, definitely works
Love the upgrades! Super creative ideas and that hulk reference....very nice 🤣
@@fiveduckstudio I knew you’d like that one 😁
On your first video I thought to myself I have seen this before, as I have had those in my shop for years and don't know where I got the idea. But this video - hands down original, you knocked it out of the park.
Thanks 🙏 Gotta swing for those fences!
That last video was brilliant…this one even more brilliant.
@@jlivewell Aww man thanks 🙏
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Now I have to find a way to tell my wife that I NEED these. Hahaha
I hadn't seen any of your videos before, but I'm now a subscriber. Keep up the great work.
Welcome aboard!
Every second of this is absolute brilliance!
@@CredibleHulk10 Are you just saying this because of the Hulk reference? 😂
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Ha!
That was enough for the ❤️, but the SOLID content and amazing ideas got the comment. Keep it up, champ. 👌🏻
This is genius. Love your channel. I’m a new subscriber. These ideas are great. I plan to make some of these
@@steveferguson1232 Welcome aboard Steve! 🫡
Just here to add some positivity. You're great and thanks for the hard work!
Thank you for the positivity. Please feel free to add some to my next video too! 😇
Had to subscribe because of the channel name alone. Way back in the 1980's I had a Auto Mechanics shop. We called it the Busted Knuckle Mechanic !
There’s lots of ways to bust some knuckles out here 🤜
Thank you for this excellent educational video. Carry On Sir!
Thanks, will do!
Excelent video. Thank you for sharing these panel clamps. I have been on the verge of buying a couple of the Rockler sets every time I am in their store, this will save me.
Glad it was helpful!
What a coincidence, I made my superstrut cauls based on your other video just yesterday! Took me forever to find the video again, since I couldn't remember they were called cauls 😂
No way! That’s awesome 👏
Fantastic idea with the small clamp
Thank you! Cheers!
Perfect I’ve been considering making these but in my mind thought something is missing, now I know what. For thin panels .25 thick this is a perfect solution, and the wedges will work. For thicker panels the clamps will suffice, point being glue it up move it out of the way, get more done!
As I pointed out, can’t do thin panels with those fancy store bought contraptions
Lee you are the man! I dig anybody who innovates anything. Like I always told the new guys in the autobody shops I worked at when it came to tools, The bolt doesn't care or know what tool you got it out with. Keep up the good work and forget the haters. I made the ones you previously showed and they worked awesome at a fraction of the cost. You rock brother!
@@immurerecords can’t be tight if it’s a liquid, right? 😂
Now that is how to think outside the box. Brilliant ( I think ) innovations .
Your thinking is correct, I am brilliant 💡 😂
I think you can do a simpler solution than how you modified a G-clamp. Cut the head off an F-clamp and drill a hole big enough for the bolt to go through in the middle of the head, and put the bolt through. Tightening the F-clamp would provide pressure on both sides of the bolt due to the pivot point. I'd probably add a wooden braces to the screw piece (as you did on the G clamp) and also on the other end (where you cut).
Fantastic research. Your last video had stuck in my head and I'd wanted to design custom end pieces, but you've shown that all you need is bolts, nut handles and F clamps.
But you need to drill two holes anyway, otherwise won’t it just turn when you tighten it?
this would be so much easier with a picture :). Ok, so you remove the head of an F clamp from the bar. Then you drill a hole in the middle of the f clamp head, between where the bar used to be and the turny handle thingumy is, thread the bolt through the hole. When you turn the handle it will push away from the boards as you tighten it, but that will cause the bar-end to pivot towards the boards, when it makes contact it will start applying even pressure at both ends. Probably worth padding out the "bar end" so that the head ends up approximately square when tightened.
@@SimonStevensakaSnetty interesting idea. Do you know of any drill bits that can penetrate that hardened steel? I probably snapped 20 bits making this video already 😂
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks maybe my F clamps are cheap, but I'd be surprised if the steel was hardened. I shall have to test.
Great video! Hearing “give it a Smack” brings me back to my New Jersey roots, LOL.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Lessons, Tips & Techniques... it's all in here. and I have those Metals but without holes in it, .. I'll just put holes and use it in my Wall Mount Folding Table project. Thank you sir.
Awesome 👏 thanks for watching?
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks for now I keep visualizing what to do to make an angle grinder slide using tubulars pipes without using wielding machine hehehe
You stood above the armchair Karens, then made a better tool. Thank you brother.
@@odbo_One “armchair Karens” 😂 too funny, imma totally stealing that
A pair of edge clamps like Piher 19003 might work without modification, together with these struts and bolts.
Never heard of these before, had to google it… but yeah, I think those would work!
Another great video Lee. Where did you get the handles for the first part of the video
I just added a link in the description.
Great video. You knock it out of the park with these economic solutions.
@@Bark-to-Bed-Woodworking thanks man! Really appreciate you watching good sir
This is the best idea I have ever seen menards and harbor freight here I come.
Best places to get cheap clamps! 👍
Also, it seems like you could use ratchet straps to tighten the calls together if you had extra of those, and less massively over-long bolts.
Way more possible ideas than I could fit into one video! 😁
Definitely some nice improvements on an already great idea. I know I'll be improving mine first chance I get. Thanks, Lee.
One suggestion, maybe add blue tooth to them. That way they are more high tech than the store bought.
Next video, Bluetooth, WiFi, and an OLED display!
Lee what a great video with so many great ideas on clamping calls definitely going to give them a try. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it my man 🙏
I really like those handle nuts. I think I'm gonna make a set with those handle nuts. Just found your channel & subbed. Thanks.
Welcome!
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Excellent ideas! Great delivery. I subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
Strut actually come up to 20ft lengths, I can’t imagine having any use that long for your clamps. I LOVE INEXPENSIVE especially when it works as good or better than store bought.
Dang, 20 foot! That’d be one hell of a huge charcuterie board lol
FYI, the channels are a little bit stiffer with the open side down than the flat side down. In other words, the centers are going to lift a little bit less with the open sides against the work.
@@owengrossman1414 yes, which is why I showed them that way in the first video, but a lot of viewers wanted me to show them the other way
One word: Excellent!👍
Many thanks!
You are just brilliant. Thanks for an excellent video and your hard work.
Thank you very much!
Brilliant Solution!
Thanks Jeffrey
This is outstanding! Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it
use two wedges with an angle of 5 to 7 degrees on each wedge. this keeps the flats of the wedges parallel to the edge of the panel and the wedges will not work loose.
Great tip for larger glueups for sure, but on smaller work I find shallow wedges tend to run into each other.
The biggest problem that I find is that when I’m working on a project and need to strap something down, I don’t want to go fumbling through my shop, looking for strut, carriage bolts, c clamps to sacrifice to cut and drill, etc. I want everything at my disposal in a kit since most of the time, I am moving between job sites. It would really be cool to see a follow up video on how you organize in store all of this! Also, the ADHD in my wants to know what you did with the other half of the c clamps? 😂 what can you use those for now?
Pretty easy to keep all of this (mostly) pre-assembled.
I'd agree with just keeping it all assembled, or alternately, all the galvanized or zinc coated metal parts would stick well to a cheap Harbor Freight magnetic strip.
Great follow-up, Lee. So thorough!
I think I addressed everything from the first video. We shall see what kind of feedback this gets…
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Well, you know what Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say!
@@MyGrowthRings we’re both old enough to get that reference
Love it man - keep up the great videos!!
Thanks! Will do!
If you double the height, it is close to 4 times as strong and not double. It is close 8 times as stiff. The stiffness is more critical than the strength for a situation like this.
Oooh that sounds like advanced math 🤕 😂
Awesome ideas! Glad to see you back, too
Good to be back!
I've been using the cone-nuts wrong. I feel foolish. If I don't get anything else from this video, I have that. Many thanks!
No worries, glad to help!
wedging is the easiest way to exert entirely too much force. with a machinist c clamp style you can exert a force on the order of 10x invested. but with matched low angle wedges (like 6 to 1) you can exert 12 times effort invested. and if you apply a clamp to your matched wedges you're looking at 300 to 1 force applied. wedges are crazy.
One of the fundamental machines you learn about in science class! 🤓
Really great ideas. I was about to pick up the Fulton 4-way pressure clamps, but I think it'll be fun making yours. And if I add some plywood and a piano hinge, I might be able to make it a permanent attached to the wall solution. Hmmm.
Wish I had room for that. You might be able to do it with just hardware and rods too.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Thanks again for the video. Just got 3 10' struts. Going to have some fun with this one.
Thanks for making me laugh on my lunch break Lee. I needed that. That one part that you said wasn't cool, I thought it was cool.
@@nicholasmanovich4330 aw thanks man, appreciate that
Your videos are amazing.
@@ZzZ-qd1zo Especially when Eddie the Shop Dog makes an appearance!
Gracias. Llego justo a Tiempo este video. De un proyecto que traigo en mente. Ya había planeado soldar algo. Es mejor esto.
De nada mi amigo!
Well done.
Thanks Greg
Thank you thank you
You are very welcome 🙏
Not sure how you built this clamp for $40. But I like the idea.
@@ourboysthaut9968 struts were about $15 each, clamp was about $6, bolts were like $2 each…
The funny thing about all this is the original design is an alternative to expensive store bought clamps. Then the complaint is the cheap version doesn't have the same features. So then more money is spent to add to the design. There was a comment in there about 'no hardware', ignoring the fact that the strut is hardware and the f-clamps are hardware and the c-clamps are hardware.
in the end it's an alternative to store bought clamp designed for the same thing. After some of those clamps are modified to be panel glue up clamps they can't be reused for anything else. There is not one solution to please everyone. You either keep generic pieces and put them together for the glue ups in a haphazard fashion, or you customize your clamp specifically to panel glue ups and nothing else. Each person has to decide if it is better for them and their workflow if they want pieces that are reusable in many processes but harder to assemble for each process or if they want specific tools that are optimized for specific processes.
@@scrager4 “No hardware” to me means no buying extraneous nuts and bolts and washers and stuff. Presumably the F clamps and squeeze clamps are things you already have, and you can still use them for their intended purpose on other projects.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks I understood it at that point, then it went down the road of modifying all those clamps specifically for cauls without other clamps and you basically made a home made version of the expensive rockler by buying and modifying clamps that can no longer be used for their original purpose.
My observation is that you can either have strut channel with some clamps that you can reuse for other things and it might be a little cumbersome to set up pipe clamps and cauls. OR you can have a customized caul+clamp that is dedicated to panel glue ups and requires you to spend more money on dedicated hardware.
BUT you can't have it both ways.
All in all, I appreciate the video. I would go the caul and separate clamps route myself. I think that the dedicated caul+clamp would be for people that make more panels than anything else or people with money and space to dedicate to specific tools.
@@scrager4 I get your point. FYI, the C-clamps were only $6 😁
Great video bud. Not to mention a really good, home made money saver. Nothing but positive feedback from me.
Thanks Mark, very appreciated
Very clever.
Thanks
Lee, you are a genius!!!
@@GeometryBuild I feel like this is something you would invent 😁
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks haha, i tend to overcomplicate things )))
You just saved us all so much time and $$$! 🙏
@@jpelphrey91 I hope so!
Can this be used for laminating two boards together, face to face? Like, would it apply even pressure across the whole width?
@@davobonbon oh yeah definitely! I would probably put one every 18”-24” or so, depending on how big the glue up is.
Thank You for your fantastic videos!!!
Glad you like them!
What took you do long to show up on my watch list? Subscribed!
@@vdis Sometimes RUclips can’t figure out where I belong! 🤷🏻♂️😁
Great idea, thanks for sharing. ✊🏼
You bet!
I am a career electrician . Strut was designed for electrical installations in commercial and industrial locations .
Yes, I talk about that quite a bit in my other strut video
so you took a bar clamp to make a panel clamp and reinvented the moxon vice?
@@Tater1337 someone had to do it lol 🤷🏻♂️
Great ideas, but what are the actual costs for a clamping system like this? Or better yet, where could I find someone getting rid of them? What industries use this stuff?
I have links in the description for sources, they all carry it. It’s used mostly in the electrical industry as I mentioned in the first video, so most electrical supply places would carry it as well.
Plumbers use it too. Try a plumbing supply house in your area. It'll only come in ten foot lengths, so you'll have to cut it to the size that you need. A sawsall with a metal blade does the trick.
@@Gazman299 most of the home stores carry 2 footers as well.
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks Yes, I've seen that. Kind of spendy though. If you have a vice strut cuts pretty easy, and it's handy to have around. Take care.
awesome!!!!
No YOU ARE 😁
Pretty slick. ❤
Slick is my middle name 😏
add a pipe clamp to each end of the wedge, then tighten it and it will pull the wedges in to each other
@@Carpenters_Canvas That would work, but the point was to get rid of the pipe clamps?
@@BustedKnuckleWoodworks just spit balling brother, keep up the great work
It's a cramp. It is used to clamp.
@@geoffgeoff143 Since I invented it, I’m gonna name it The Cramp 😂
Woodpecker is ridiculous with their prices!
@@jasondavis257 absolutely!
Very cool man!
Brilliant.
@@ST-0311 thank you, very kind
Informative. Entertaining. Subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
Lovely
It’s just makeup, I don’t wake up this lovely
Proper orientation of the struts is solely dependent on the hemisphere you live in.
My South American audience is gonna be PISSED 😡
new sub, thank you!!
@@HueyCreekWW Thanks Gordon, appreciate it!
Really cool
Thanks 🙏
Do you have a BoM for getting started with a setup like this, but chance? I'm tempted to run out and buy, but bet I'd get it wrong.
@@Anonymoose361 depends on which setup you’re interested in; I show several in the video. There are links in the description for everything I talked about though.
Hey, thanks very much, and thanks for all the hard work!
You really need to consider making more videos.....
@@bierbarrel I think you may be right. Do you think folks would watch? 🤔
WHAAT?! GRIND !#%🥶
If you are cranking down on the bolts enough to bend the bars in the middle, you are using too much pressure. Seriously, that much pressure is going to leave impressions in the wood. Why does anyone need that much pressure?
Nobody needs that much pressure, but if you read the comments in the first video a lot of people mentioned it anyway
Thy, always the easiest is the best option.
@@henrysara7716 you betcha!
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Now its Bending oh #$!&*!
That whole process of troubleshooting, and critical thinking to get a job done needs to be taught in highschool
Learned it from my grandfather, and he never even went to high school! 😁