it's Friday fool and you need this tool
welcome back to the glorious episode of it's Friday fool you need this tool my
name is Kyle Voss in every Friday I bring you a tool a tool that I use here
in this shop or that I have featured on this channel this week we're going to
talk clamps and clamping clamping clamps so you're use one of these I'm sure you
have one of these I'm sure all of you have used AC clamp one of these vise
grip style clamps the question is have you ever used one of these and it just
didn't have enough ass like you couldn't squeeze it tight enough or you couldn't
turn it tight enough a lot of times these will flex on you when you really
try to get some serious clamping force well today's clamp is not like these
clamps today's clamp is a serious clamp so the guys over time I'd sent me this
thing this is a fully engineered Specht out bad boy of a clamp
this is not enough sissy clam this is a big boy clan this thing is made to do
some serious work when I say work I mean like 7,000 pounds of clamping force this
is a bad bully you know I'm saying some of the features this clamp offers is the
clamping jaws and the shaft you actually adjust the clamp with are coated in
copper so will splatter is not a problem the jaws themselves have a V groove on
them for clamping round tubes and such it's got actually two sets the way that
you can adjust this thing it comes with a little economic handle you can slide
this thing in the bottom give our twist or you can also use an impact with this
or just a drill whatever
this thing can be used with an impact wrench up to like 400 foot pounds and I
have seen videos of what these guys have done with these some of our testing
shows like 7000 pounds of clamping force pretty incredible it's really more like
a portable vise actually this thing has more clamping force than my vise does
some of the uses that I would see for this would be like clamping things in
the fixtures clamping things to a table if you need to work on it clamping two
pieces of Steel together they may not be perfectly flat you can kind of clamp
those together and then weld them or bolt them or whatever it is that you're
going to do I can also see this thing being very useful for holding things
like say on a drill press or a mill that kind of clamping force would for sure
keep things where they're supposed to be die mine has several videos on YouTube
of this thing in action i'ma send you over there you can see a little bit more
what it can do and how they've tested it I'll put you a little I'll also drop you
a link in the description as I always do where you can pick one of these bad boys
up
I could see this thing being used to like pick up stuff to like mount cable
or a hoist to this clamp this thing on some sheet steel you could clamp this
thing to the rafters and hang stuff from it these things things pretty bad
alright guys there you go this week's tool the dime I'd clamp clamp with
confidence so these days there's definitely a bad boy if you've been
looking for a clamp that just is not like everything else out there here it
is go check it out as always thank you for joining me I will see you guys some
more this week it's Friday fool