"Gramp's shop" wrote:

It's glue-up time for the bench base and I needed some 6-foot
clamps. I have one 8-foot pipe clamp and was going to spring for
two more 8 footers until the local Ace reported the pipe runs 25
cents and inch. Kinda takes your breath away.

I bought a couple of wonder dogs on my recent trip to Lee Valley.
Screwed a foot on to one end of a 2x4 and drilled a 3/4 inch hole
for the dog at the other and, voila, problem solved.
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These days plumbing distributors sell precut and threaded pipe nipples
produced by specialty suppliers who do nothing but produce pipe
nipples.

10 ft max and typically over night availability.

Cutting and threading a standard size nipple at the local distributor
or hardware
store these days just isn't competitive any more.

Lew