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  1. #1
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    Default Modifying a pair of Vise Grips into a Sash Clamp

    Saw this on You Tube and thought it rather a nifty idea.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC15Uo4dfFw
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    Have to give him credit for the idea (and using an angle grinder with a guard and handle) but I`d rather keep the vice grips as intended and use a clamp.

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    I think the idea behind it all, is that it can be used single handed, whereas a clamp usually requires 2 hands.
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    Whilst the idea might have merit. It has the most stupid title. Youtube is getting full of the stupid titled videos these days.
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    For the price of the vice grips and the other material you can buy an Irwin quick clamp

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    They probably don't have Irwin in Russia and just to pedantic it is not a sash cramp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .RC. View Post
    Whilst the idea might have merit. It has the most stupid title. Youtube is getting full of the stupid titled videos these days.
    You tube didn't pick the title, I did, as the title whatever was in Russian or some other!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    I think the idea behind it all, is that it can be used single handed, whereas a clamp usually requires 2 hands.
    Kryn
    Unless he got a really good fit, the 'throw' on that vice grip jaw pivot would probably just push the lower movable jaw out of the way before it canted and grips. Necessitating 2 hands I'd think.
    Nice idea, but not one I'll be trying.

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    Nothing new here with this type of clamp, I have been using them for years.

    This is a genuine Petersen Manufacturing Company "Vice Grip" 310S that I picked up somewhere. Petersen were the original designers of the "Locking Plier" and held the patent for many years.

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    Knew I’d seen this idea before.
    Picked this up at a welding shop clearing sale.
    Yet to use it, lives with the other clamps under the welding bench.
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