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Workshop Tip: A simple wingnut improves any toggle clamp
Replacing the top nut with a wingnut makes adjustments easy
Toggle clamps have two nuts for adjusting the height of their pressure tips, requiring two wrenches and some frustrating fiddling. If you replace the top nut with a wingnut or clamp knob, height adjustments become quick and easy, with no wrenches needed.
—JEFF BREMER, Los Angeles
Illustrations by Dan Thornton
From Fine Woodworking issue #281
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Small Clamps Everybody NeedsJUNE 4, 2008 |
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