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Just a question, what do you folks use to hold/clamp bits and bobs together while cement is setting up? Specifically I'm thinking to give a gentle hold, not a passionate embrace.
Most of my clamps are spring loaded, and apply good bit of pressure. The little wooden clamps, are dolls clothes pins, I copied Jssel's mounting them on cocktail sticks, and are very handy. I probably use them the most, and then the large wooden clothes pins.
The blue clamps are the closest thing I have that can just hold gently, you slide the jaws up and then move the little locking piece to hold them. Not bad if you can get them to stay put, the jaws seem to skid a bit, I'm thinking of gluing some sand paper to give them a touch of grip.
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Like you I use a lot of different things, the one I don’t like ( but always forget that I don’t like) is a tweezers with a spring that has a habit of launching small parts in a orbit that even the carpet monster cant reach!!!! It even managed to launch medium large part from the landing gear of my latest YAK 9 to a place in the kitchen that has not yet been discovered!
Also I use rubber bands and sticky putty.
And I have a “clamp” that can be turned in every direction I want.
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Like you I use a lot of different things, the one I don’t like ( but always forget that I don’t like) is a tweezers with a spring that has a habit of launching small parts in a orbit that even the carpet monster cant reach!!!! It even managed to launch medium large part from the landing gear of my latest YAK 9 to a place in the kitchen that has not yet been discovered!
Also I use rubber bands and sticky putty.
And I have a “clamp” that can be turned in every direction I want.
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rubber bands work quite well ive found, especially if you have a selection of different thicknesses
masking tape has its uses too
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Ratchet clamps of all sorts of sizes, some spring clamps and ceiling fixers' wedge clamps for when it absolutely, definitely has to be there.
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I use much the same as you, Jim, although I find those orange-tipped clamps are too much for most of my builds. I also have a stack of various small G-clamps that I scored from a mitre 10 bargain bin a while back. I also use a couple of heafty books for applying weight evenly when laminating paper model components...
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Here are some of my favorite ...
The little wood clothes pins, on the left, are useful for small tasks. The two above exert too much pressure and tend to slide off slanting surfaces, but are handy at times. The yellow one has a decent gap but is only useful for light/delicate jobs.
My favorite is the red clothes pin which is really a rubber/plastic -- it has good pressure and doesn't slide off. I only have a dozen and cannot figure out where I got them from so I can get more.
The light blue bar is handy because the jaws are parallel. Same for the two Irwin Quik-Clamps; the jaws float/rotate a bit so they fit to odd surfaces. This variety of the Irwin clamps is very gentle on the model, not being spring held like others are. I also have large sizes of all these.
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The little wood clothes pins, on the left, are useful for small tasks. The two above exert too much pressure and tend to slide off slanting surfaces, but are handy at times. The yellow one has a decent gap but is only useful for light/delicate jobs.
My favorite is the red clothes pin which is really a rubber/plastic -- it has good pressure and doesn't slide off. I only have a dozen and cannot figure out where I got them from so I can get more.
The light blue bar is handy because the jaws are parallel. Same for the two Irwin Quik-Clamps; the jaws float/rotate a bit so they fit to odd surfaces. This variety of the Irwin clamps is very gentle on the model, not being spring held like others are. I also have large sizes of all these.
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Thanks for the input folks, some great solutions.
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What do those look like Steve?flakmonkey wrote:ceiling fixers' wedge clamps
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Thats a very handy collection there JRatz, I use clothes pegs, tape, rubber bands and I have a few of those black clamps with the orange teeth, they sometimes seem a bit strong for some jobs and destort the shape of the model.
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I have a couple of nice slide-y style clamps
that have parallel bars to slide the jaw down - when they grip, the moving jaw goes off the parallel to the fixed jaw and holds by friction - if that makes sense? They have a pad of camp-matting sort of foam to give grip.
I also like pipe cleaners for a firm yet non-crushing hold, they also work better for fuselages & round what-nots.
Brilliant for cleaning airbrushes, too.
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I also like pipe cleaners for a firm yet non-crushing hold, they also work better for fuselages & round what-nots.
Brilliant for cleaning airbrushes, too.
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