There may already be in-depth tutorials, but I would like Carbide (Kevin) to make a video on using the various work holding products Carbide offers. I have always had a problem using any sort of work holding.
Are there already videos out there from Carbide? Maybe I am calling it something else? I just need a way to properly hold material so that it stops moving when I have a project running!
Thanks!
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Will, those Crash-It clamps are almost genius. BUT! They are not long enough to cover all possible combinations. Means to cover all options they have to be long enough to reach a little over half the distance between the rails. And a simple stop on the other side is not the same since the Crash-It clamps also pull down the stock when tightened.
A 3d-file would also not be enough, since they are made very sturdy with glass fiber inlays what IMO cannot be printed, and these brilliant steel inserts make them the best clamps I could imagine so far.
So please have your people made some clamps that are just a bit longer to cover the whole distance between the rails with two of them.
Today I needed to clamp something an 2 5/16 wide board for making cabinet door molding. I used my “fence” on the left side but then I was waay too far away for clamps on the left. I pushed it over 1 inch from the dunce with a spacer and that worked for my shorter boards where I could clamp on the ends. Then I had to do a tiling setup to do the longer pieces and on tile 1 the ends was too far back so I came up with this:
When I slid it forward for tile 2 that wouldn’t work on the front because Sweepy would be in the way. Then it occurred to me to take the front bolt holding the MDF slat in and use that as an anchor for the clamp. It’s shown here with the free although not in action in this pic.
I may use that strategy in other places in the future. It worked well, but I didn’t finish my project due to a possible bug in the Vectric software when using tiling. On my shorter pieces my toolpath worked great but on the ones ai had to tile the X was shifted ever so slightly in X. I thought it was my placement or zeroing technique but after wasting 3 boards and checking the file and paths multiple times I noticed the error shows up in the visualization only when tiling is enabled.
Ordinarily it wouldn’t be a huge deal but since these are pieces of a cabinet door frame they have to match exactly. I will have to do the longer pieces with “manual” tiling.
Updated to add an “action” shot of the clamp in the slat hold down hole.
