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Workshop Tip: Protect clamp bars with waxed paper
This precaution keeps glue squeeze-out from gumming up your clamps.
I love my parallel-jaw bench clamps, but I don’t love how glue squeeze-out drips onto the serrated bars, making the clamps hard to operate. After a recent cleaning, I’ve started laying waxed paper over the bars to prevent the problem. Waxed paper also prevents pipe-clamp bars from discoloring wood when glue oxidizes the steel pipes.
—TOM SCHORN, Groton, Mass.
Illustrations by Dan Thornton
From Fine Woodworking issue #296
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Comments
1- or 2-inch wide strips of paper would serve the purpose just as well. Or a strip blue tape along your pipe clamps.
Looks like almost all of the wax paper in this drawing is going to be crumpled up and thrown away for no real reason.
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