On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:49:58 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:56:51 GMT, Michael Baglio
wrote:

Okay, fair enough. This is the internet and I didn't spell it out.
I should have specified "I haven't had 1/2" pipe clamps bend enough to
cause whatever is being clamped to be thrown out of square or buckle
from uneven pressure."

I have.
'course, those 10 footer 1/2" pipe clamps bow if you just look at them
hard...

10 footers? Yikes, you must moonlight in Plamman's shop. In my
12X16 shop-ette, if I need 10 footers I string a couple of 6's
together. (Like _that_ would ever actually happen, since building
something requiring that much pipe wouldn't actually _fit_ in my
shop.)

Seriously, though, is anyone regularly bending 1/2" pipe when gluing
up tabletops or smaller casework? Iirc, the force necessary to glue
hardwoods together is about 250#/sq.inch, and although I can't
remember what the clamping force of 1/2" pipe is, I think it's
somewhere in the range of "a farking butt-load."

Michael "all figures approximate" Baglio