You can make them yourself with a good cutting torch and finish them with a
grinder. I know many welders and mechanics who have done it.

"Paul" wrote in message
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| "Wally" wrote in message
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| Sometime back I was given a couple steel wedges, just hard flat steel
| about 1" wide, 1/4" thick at the fat end and tapering down to nothing.
| I have looked all over locally (Tacoma and Bremerton, Washington) and
| no one has them. I found some on McMaster-Carr and ordered them, but
| they are sort of a hollow ground at the fat end, not the same. And
| they are relatively expensive.
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| Pipefitters use them, I have found them useful for all sorts of
| spreading and aligning. Anyone know where to find such a thing?
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| Wally,
| MSC (mscdirect.com) sell them also. They call them clamping wedges,
they're
| on page 1067.
| Paul
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