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Thread: Clamping tapered boxes
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17th January 2007, 08:33 AM #1
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Clamping tapered boxes
Lots of people on the web will tell us how to calculate compound angles for tapered boxes, but how do we clamp and glue them. The only solution I can find is to use 5-minute epoxy to attach angled gluing blocks. Then you have to knock off the blocks and resurface the box. There’s got to be a better way. What method do you use for gluing and clamping them? I am interested in shallower boxes because I am constructing the bottoms to dust collection boxes for a router table and a contractor’s saw.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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17th January 2007, 08:50 AM #2
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Depending on the amount of taper, Jorgensen hand clamps will do the job - they allow the jaws to be angled up to 10 degrees and still have full clamping power.
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17th January 2007, 11:20 AM #3
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Cut a tyre tube into strips long enough to wrap around the box.
Glue the box up with masking tape stretched across the corners, then wrap the rubber strip around the box as many times as it will go. You only need a little bit of tension on it, as the tension accumulates with the number of wraps.
Measure the diagonals to check that the box is square, and us a clamp in the direction of the long diagonal to adjust if necessary.
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17th January 2007, 12:52 PM #4
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Ordinary PVE glue and a pneumatic brad nailer.
If you are carefull you can fire a C1 series brad into edge grain of 9mm ply.
They leave very small holes.
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