TIP - Clamping Crossmembers

[Jman]

Cliff Dawson, a fellow Pietenpol builder, kindly has allowed me to post some of the tips he has on his website. Here is how he made his cheap and easy clamps. You can visit his site at: http://clifdawson.ca

In the diagram at left we are concerned with glueing a
crossmember to the floor of a large " box ". How is it to
be clamped down for the glue to have a good contact
with both parts? In fig.2 the crossmember A is in place
and we see another crosspiece B at the top crossing .under the sidebars at the top of the sides. This is a piece
of scrap material. The piece C is the clamping bar. It is
a thin piece of scrap cut a little longer than the distance
from A to B. When bent into place it applies pressure
to the crossmember A. The more pressure desired, the
heavier or longer piece C is made. Fig. 3 is a side view
of the whole thing.

In fig. 4 there is no sidebar as a part of the box so a C
clamp holds a piece of wood for the B piece to sit against.

Another way would be to run C all the way up to the
ceiling if necessary.

Whatever is at hand to do the job.

 

[ZENO]