Axminster Drill Clamp

[JimmieSParticipant @jimmies]

Many thanks to all concerned, it is good to know that there are still like minded folk who are more than willing to give help and advice to those in need. Jim

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

Posted by Oily Rag on 22/11/2021 21:22:07:

Not having seen the Axminster ones I can't comment – other than in the photographs they certainly look like siblings if not twins!

And at the end of the day it's just a bl**dy clamp, not a micrometer!

Martin

Agreed, but the reason I mentioned this is that I have three clamps from two different sources. The clamping action on the cheapest one, bought singly, does not actually work as it should, and no amount of fettling has been able to rectify it.

Who knows, it's quite possible that at present the Neilsen ones are actually better than the Axminster ones, and not the other way round.

[Oily RagParticipant @oilyrag]

Bill,

To throw away £6.99 is painful, to throw away £19.99 is excruciatingly painful!

I also plan on modifying the latest purchase to better fit my 6 x 4 1/2 hacksaw table – so a little electric 'gluing' will be required to shorten the clamp arm and provide an interchangeable holder (bigger pad, bed of spikes, swivelling vee groove and anything else I dream up ). I had worked out a plan to fit a shoe retainer which can be inserted and tightened from the top of the curved groove in the hacksaw table, bit like the tee nut mod posted earlier but more suited to the hacksaw. If it is a disaster I can stand the £7 loss!

I'm not only getting grumpy in old age but stingy as well.

Martin

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