"Making a Portable Clamp Rack"

      Do you think that it is taking forever to finish the clamp rack? You are right. That is one of the problems I have in the shop these days. I see Elena and/or Andrea for only a couple of hours each week. I will try to change that. In the meantime, slow is the name of the game — in fact, it is my best speed too often.  Speedy Gonzales was not 70.

   The red lines are where the top of the upright will be cut. Elena is measuring down to where she drilled and screewed in the two long lag screws. This is the first of three legs and she will use it to pattern the others.       

      On her next keg assembly, she measures where she will position the lag scrws.

       She has clamped the pieces together and is now drilling a 1/4" hole as deep as she can. The lag screw she is using is about 1/2" longer than the drill.

   She runs a "squiggle" of CA medium gel toone of the surfaces.

       She gives the mating piece a quick squirt of the Activator. The glue and the activator are a part of the very handy FastCap 2P-10 CA Adhesives kit. I really like it for tasks just like this.

     Elena hammers in the lag screws. Of course, we don't hammer them in, except for the first few inches. We leave the last inch to finish with the socket wrench.

  And rachet she does. Both lag screws pulled very tight and she can remove the clamp.

   With the tops fastened, Elena now checks to make sure that the legs are square. The back leg should be square and the front leg gets the same line so that the leg set can stand correctly.

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