Using this device you can glue boards of wood of different sizes. The clamp itself is characterized by ease of use and a fairly simple design. If you have the right materials, making such a clamp for the home workshop will not be difficult.
For the manufacture of home-made clamps (they are also called wyms), a stud with M10 nuts, a steel strip of 20 mm and two rectangular profile pipes with sides 40x20 mm and a length of 80 cm are required. These materials can be inexpensively bought at a hardware store.
Clamps for gluing boards: stages of work
On the profile pipes we make a marking and drill through holes every 15 cm, using a conventional or step drill. We cut the steel strip with a grinder into segments of 150 mm length. In these plates we drill two holes of the desired diameter.
We connect profile pipes to each other using plates. An emphasis will also be required - movable square and fixed T-shaped, welded from a profile with side dimensions of 20x20 mm. We screw a hairpin of a suitable length into the movable clamp.
Features of using clamps
It is good in that when gluing wooden boards, it clamps the workpiece from four sides in two planes. Thus, the gluing is very high quality. By rearranging the T-shaped fixed stop, you can adjust the length. See the video on our website for the assembly process of the clamp for gluing wood panels.
