Maybe it's called 'clamps' in english ...

[ksor]

But I know why these ware invented - see the attached piture !

It simply takes too long time to make one with one of these:

http://kelds.weebly.com/3/category/spaendeband72efd893aa/1.html

let Google do the translation for you !

For 'bigger' clamps I think it's a good idea.

[Deko]

Hi Ksor
          That looks like a realy good idea, but how do i get google to do the translation ?

Cheers Dek

[Noitoen]

Hi Ksor
          That looks like a realy good idea, but how do i get google to do the translation ?

Cheers Dek

Easy. Just write the link on the text space on google translate and choose the language. It will translate the site.

[Powder Keg]

They are handy and would be very simple to make.

~Wes~

[ksor]

Yeah, that video is showing an example with - I think solder tin -  notice she turns and lock it on top of the tools with her fingers !

Let's see an example with 1mm steinless steel - and try turn THAN with your fingers !

But I'll try add that extra smaller pin in the nose and as I said it's good for big clamps.

[John Hill]

Here is my version...


IMGP9634 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr

......those are inches on the rule.


Here is my effort with some really hard 12gauge fence wire, it is really awful stuff to try to do anything with (except build fences of course).  I think the baling wire would be a real cinch with a tool of this size.


IMGP9635 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr

[ksor]

Mine are nearly that size too - AND I have added the extra pin at the tip now.

I notice, that you "only" made a "single" clamp with the fence wire - that did halfen (or more) the time spend, I think.

Notice, I'm not saying it can't be done - I'm just saying it takes too long time !

And I sure there ARE cases where a clamp like this IS the best - maybe the only - solution to the problem.

I just expented more from the tool.

[Fergus OMore]

This, I must add, is pretty old stuff.
I did a City and Guilds in Motor Vehicle restoration and I used a very much simpler set of clips.
I'd made a set of fasteners on the lathe but then discovered that Frosts, an old established body work shop sold them in packs of 10.
This is nearly 40 years ago and mine were made of 1mm steel for insertion between high strength low alloy steel which had been airhacksawed from Nissan panels and which we had to Mig up again.

Basically, 'mine' were scraps of flat steel radiator sheet with two holes and taper pins which nipped up the panels. If bits were lost in an enclosed section, so what, they were cheap enough.

Even the Nissans were 'free', we got them as rejects from the local factory and hacked and chewed them-- and handed them back simply to satisfy the tax man and his accounting.

It was, and is no great thing.

Regards

Norman

[Pete.]

It's a better idea than the one further down his page of mounting a laptop on a wall bracket right above a double radiator

[John Hill]

Yes the idea is quite old and even tools like that have been available for about 100 years. 

But they do have their uses other than on rubber hoses.

[ksor]

It's a better idea than the one further down his page of mounting a laptop on a wall bracket right above a double radiator

No, THAT's a good AND new idea - and you don't even know id the radiator is in use at all - I do ! 

Concerning the tools for the clamps .. I never did say it was a good OR a new idea  !

- in fact I saw a link to a video in here AND was tricked into making the tools myself - as I said I was exspecting a lot more 

[John Hill]

I think the tool is a good idea and I would like to improve mine so I could use it more than I do.

It is very good for those occasions when you do not have a clamp, when you want the clamp to be 'tidy' and not catch on things, when you want to clamp something of big diameter.

I would like to improve mine to better hold the end of the wire so that so much wire does not need to be wrapped around the tool.

[dsquire]

I think the tool is a good idea and I would like to improve mine so I could use it more than I do.

It is very good for those occasions when you do not have a clamp, when you want the clamp to be 'tidy' and not catch on things, when you want to clamp something of big diameter.

I would like to improve mine to better hold the end of the wire so that so much wire does not need to be wrapped around the tool.

John

If anyone can improve on this I am confident that you are up to the task. Give it a try John, I know that you can do it.

Cheers 

Don

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