{"id":1069,"date":"2008-03-20T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T02:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2008-11-25T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T02:36:49","slug":"clamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Clamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Test pieces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aluminum alignment clips\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clipl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clip.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"alignment clip\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To keep the top of the layout reliably aligned I felt it needed something bullet proof.  I made a set of alignment clips tonight from some 1\/4&#8243; aluminum and fastened them to two separate pieces of wood to see how well it will hold.  The clips are 2&#8243; long and 1&#8243; wide each.  A joiner slides into the clips to keep everything aligned, shown above.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to work well, with the pieces perfectly aligned and very rigid.  They are small enough to fit under the layout so I can use several of them where needed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Toggle clamp.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clampclosel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clampclose.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clampclose.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"Toggle clamp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have decided to upgrade the clamps I will use to join the boxes to the benchwork.  Initially I was going to use a &#8220;suitcase&#8221; type of clamp, but the ones I purchased seem a little weak for the job.  I found the type above and ordered a dozen of them.   These are much more robust and don&#8217;t have any parts that would protrude past the bottom of the box and could possibly get damaged as the brass version I had initially purchased.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boxes clamped in place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clampedl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clamped.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clamped.jpg\" border=\"2\" alt=\"clamped.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rendering above shows the clamps in place to demonstrate how they are to be used to hold the boxes tight to the benchwork. They won&#8217;t be on the outside of the boxes on the actual layout, I will mount them inside to keep them from getting bumped when being moved.<\/p>\n<p>On to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1078\">Next Section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Test pieces To keep the top of the layout reliably aligned I felt it needed something bullet proof. I made a set of alignment clips tonight from some 1\/4&#8243; aluminum and fastened them to two separate pieces of wood to see how well it will hold. The clips are 2&#8243; long and 1&#8243; wide each. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benchwork-construction","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}