"Bill" wrote in message
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"whit3rd" wrote in message
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On Oct 8, 5:34 pm, "Bill" wrote:

Well, it looks like I'll return the threaded rod, and get my $5 back,
unless
someone can suggest
what it might come in handy for... Maybe carp spearing?

Clamping, of course. I'd use the rod and holes for clamping 'til the
glue hits full strength, then remove the rods for next project
(there's
a bundle of such rods in the corner of my shop).

If you were using green wood, the rods could hold things together, and
the nuts could be adjusted to take up slack, as well. Green wood
doesn't take glue well.

Most of my glue-ups of repetitive sorts (edges on plywood) are
clamped with blocks-and-threaded-rod assemblies, which are
easy to fabricate, by the dozen, as long as the threaded rod holds out.

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I appreciated reading your answer. Thanks! It reminds me that some use
homemade
block-clamps like this in violin making--they just don't need 3/8"
diameter!

--Bill


Another possible use:
I used threaded rod in the base of the workbench I built years ago.
(And still use today.)
My intent was firstly to eliminate racking and secondly to facilitate quick
and easy assembly and disassembly as I had a boat re-building project
on the go and would move all of my woodworking gear down to the
boatyard evrey time I had a week to spare, then back home when I needed
to go back to work. It worked really well.

The stretchers are dowelled but not glued to the uprights. There is a
channel
routed on the inside of each stretcher to house the rod, which then passes
through
the uprights and has a nut and washer on each end, (recessed.)
The URL below shows a *very* rough sketch, which might explain it a little
more clearly

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32473839@N02/3996563278/