On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:51:45 -0700 (PDT),
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I'll see if I can find a photo of the ones I made.

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Stealth,

I know exactly what you're talking about. The clamps that held Wilbur
Wright's test "air plane" and flat plate to the bicycle-wheel-thingy
of the 1901 aerodynamic experiment are made that way (on a much
smaller scale).


I went out in the workshop and after some searching found and
photographed my clamp.
I've posted the images on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation under a
header of welding aid 1 and 2. for some reason the text gets posted in
one post and the image in another.

the device works.

I reiterate that the "clamping" pressure is very light. only just
enough to hold it in place. too much clamping and you bend the
longeron in the opposite way to what you were trying to prevent.

Stealth Pilot