Anyone buying a mitre clamp at screwme in particular this one...
My mitred cuts are spot on and the above vice is s**te!
Indeed - my mitre clamps have two sets of jaws which clamp inwards. Guess the designer of this thing worked for B&O.
I had my doubts about it when I seen it out the box and guessed the clamps needed to pull rather than push,so yes it is wrongly designed. Hey! up screwme if ya in the shadows of the group this will be winging your way back to the store for a refund.
Thought so...this one is properly designed.
I used to use sections of inner tube to clamp up small frames. Works like a big rubber band and allows you to adjust the mitres individually without losing the pressure.
Trouble is, tubeless tyres made tubes redundant :-(
Mary
Bang & Olufsen !
Freudian slip ?
Derek
Mary Fisher explained :
Bicycle inner tubes?
I just use a series of sash cramps (and any necessary adjustment from a tourniquet (ISTR aka a Spanish windlass) to correct any skew).
No - deliberate. Design over technology.
I was doing rather a lot of them at the time. Ulmia mitre clips are excellent for production work, but the inner tubes came in handy for non
90 degree joints e.g. on 6 sided frames.
This is how I do it without any mitre clamps or inner tubes. Don't know what posssesed me to buy a mitre clamp? think I'll stick to my old way of stapling together for the glue to set. Normally the frames are stapled on the back as its the part thats not seen but in this case the canvas covering will hide them on the front and back.
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Heavens! Does anyone still use those?
Mary
Errr, yes, on my bicycle (what I have just got off having cycled to work and thus feeling virtuous and endorphined :o) ).
I believe they are still the norm for keeping the tyres up! I even have a puncture repair kit or two (and use them).
=================================== Have you tried 'Slime' in your tubes? It *nearly* eliminates the need for a puncture repair kit. A spare tube is definitely required, because failure with a 'Slime' equipped tube usually means it's terminal.
As far as tubeless tyres are concerned, the cost is enough to put most people off buying and they usually require special rims at extra cost.
Cic.
We used to use inner tubes on our touring bikes (and mended lots of punctures) but tubeless on the racing ones. We've only used tubeless for a long time. Don't race any more of course :-)
Mary
No as I would never mend a tube on the roadside, just carry a spare, doing the mend back home and I can't be arsed filling the tyres with slime!
Indeed. I have never knowingly been associated with one!
There's posh. Never knowlingly touched a tubeless bicycle tyre (racing not my thing by a long way!)
I'm sure you must do things I've never done :-) Horses for courses, I spent too much time in the rain, wind and/or snow replacing or repairing tubes. Life's too short.
Mary
Well, I had one handed in to Lost Property today.
Owain
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