Thread: More Helix Clamps

A while back I purchased a pair of clamps on German Ebay. They required modification to suit the 13's 12mm tee slots. http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/he...0/#post1436572

On Friday I collected another two pairs from the PO and found that heavy handedness is a universal phenomena. The German seller had indicated that there was damage to the tee nuts on the larger, 60 - 135mm pair. Makes me wonder what the tee slots were like. Made a new pair from some 1045.

The clamps were listed on Ebay.de as Treppenspannpratzen, Stufenpratzen should anyone be interested in a sticky beak.

BT

mmmmmmmmmmmmaybe one day. I do look at them every now and then but I always seem to have spent "as much as I think I can get away with" on something else

Looks like you made the top of the T deeper? You dont use coolant do you? I made the misstake of making some tee nuts a close a fit for my tee slots. The tee slots fill up with coolant . Easy to fix though.

Stuart

Originally Posted by Stustoys

mmmmmmmmmmmmaybe one day. I do look at them every now and then but I always seem to have spent "as much as I think I can get away with" on something else

Looks like you made the top of the T deeper? You dont use coolant do you? I made the misstake of making some tee nuts a close a fit for my tee slots. The tee slots fill up with coolant . Easy to fix though.

Stuart

Sans coolant at the moment Stu. The pump's there along with a little VFD to power it. Coolant is the issue.

The nut depth is close to the original nut depth, pre the heavy handedness.

Very pretty little clamps.. You blokes make it exceedingly difficult to save even a red cent..