Long-Reach Clamping
M
OSTC-CLAMPS DO NOThave very long reaches, and special
long-reach clamps are too expensive to have around for just
occasional use. So, when I needed to glue molding on the flat face of
a door, about 5 in. from the edge, I adapted a system I used in my
boat-building days.
In boat work, when parts had to be held together far from an edge,
we fastened two boards loosely together with a nut and bolt. Then, we
adjusted the bolt so that when a wedge was driven between the open
ends, the other ends would clamp down on the parts.
For my door-molding application, driving a wedge into the clamp-
ing strips would have moved the molding. So I carefully placed the
wedge in position without hammering and then simply tightened the
clamp arms with a wing nut.
—PERCYBLANDFORD,Stratford-upon-Avon, England
CHAPTER NINEWedge
Molding
Door