Angle Clamp

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the photos of your "angle clamp" very interesting attachment. Very neat construction, I like the blind holes for the tensioning screw, stops the screw wandering all over the place when tightened.

I have made a couple of much smaller "finger plates" but problem is always how to secure it when you need to drill or machine whatever it is holding.

Still have not upgraded to the C1 but have a piece of heavy angle that would make a nice version of your project for the C0/C1, so as to get a nice flat surface might mount the "finger plate" parts to the outside of the angle after turning/milling both outer surfaces "straight" with respect of the drill/mill bed.

Great idea.

Brian

Brian,

The photo does not particularly highlight it but the angle block is really two plates bolted together.

OK the surfaces are ground up on a surface grinder and the edges of the plates are ground square too so it bolts up pretty accurately.

In use I prefer to work within the support rather than outside it as it much more stable that way round. Most times the mass/inertia of the angle block is enough to let me just hold the work steady on the drill table but I do have a niffty toggle clamp that I can use to clamp the whole angle block if necessary..

Bob D

Thanks Bob,

Yes just noticed the bolts holding the two plates together. Agree the whole thing a lot more stable with work "inside" the attachment. Will look at maybe milling the inside surface of my piece of angle iron so as to get 'straight" sufaces may need a long series mill cutter to get into the corners, if it does not look practicle then do have a couple of offcuts of steel plate that could be machined up in the same fashion as yours. With my small lathe and lill will take a while as only very light cuts possible, but I think it well worth the effort.

In the latest ME that is a neat little fixed steady used in one of the projects.

Regards

Brian