paps

In the above post, the first calculation was using cherry, which requires the least pressure.

By these calculations, one cannot apply too much pressure to most woods. A 2" x 48" glue up would require 24 pipe clamps and 65 parallel jaw clamps. If you are using 4/4 stock, the numbers are cut in half. But that is still a lot of clamps. You would almost double those numbers for oak, and triple them for hard maple. I guess it is almost impossible to over clamp a project!

OK, I lost my paycheck at the bar at lunch, what am I going to tell the misses? Maybe I can get a loan from the boss.

You get what you pay for with Ryobi. Their products are very cheap, and are built that way. I tried their portable table saw as well as a router and a cordless drill. I really have no complaints with the drill, but the motor arbor in both the table saw and the router moved in and out. You could literally hold the saw blade between two fingers and wiggle it back and forth slightly, even when it was new. Same was true with the routers. In a severe case, especially with a untrue blade, this could cause chatter in a saw. I gave the "tools" away.