I believe it might be one of the fundamental truths of the Buddha.... You never have the correct number or types of clamps. Yet always have seemingly too many clamps to justify buying more.
You need to label them as 1 meter pipe clamps so the work thinks it can get away with being 1.1 meters, but then at the last second you rip off the label and yell "SURPRISE, IT'S ACTUALLY LONG ENOUGH!"
34 Comments
Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 150d
I believe it might be one of the fundamental truths of the Buddha.... You never have the correct number or types of clamps. Yet always have seemingly too many clamps to justify buying more.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 150d
This is absolutely true. I have 1.5 meter pipe clamps as well but the first time I tried using them ended up the same way: not long enough.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 150d
Classic mistake.
You need to label them as 1 meter pipe clamps so the work thinks it can get away with being 1.1 meters, but then at the last second you rip off the label and yell "SURPRISE, IT'S ACTUALLY LONG ENOUGH!"
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 150d
When all you have is a clamp, everything looks like a clamp.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 17 pts · 150d
Take the rubber protectors off one/both ends, toss a thin cloth in there.
BTDT
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 150d
I did, but lets not talk about that.
JoShmoe@ani.social · 1 pts · 149d
You could remove the hollow metal cylinders on the bar itself. They prevent your clamp from sliding off.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 149d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_pin
JoShmoe@ani.social · 1 pts · 149d
Good to know!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 150d
Hahahahaha
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 150d
Drill out the stop, that's certainly a decision you won't regret for as long as you own the clamp.
tomiant@piefed.social · 9 pts · 150d
If you say the word "CLAMP!" it sounds pretty funny. You can say it anywhere, it will always be a pretty funny word. CLAMP.
grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 150d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2_zb6oyep8
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 150d
CLAMP CLAMP CLAMP.
tomiant@piefed.social · 6 pts · 150d
You see?
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 150d
Clamp!
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 150d
...oh my god what have i done
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
Claaaaaaaaaammmmmmmp!
waka@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 150d
Get a second clamp and daisychain them.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 150d
The solution is always more clamps
waka@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 150d
Always has been.
Trex202@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
Clamp extenders
Blackout@fedia.io · 4 pts · 150d
Pipe clamps ftw. Brick wall started falling down on my house, got 30ft of pipe and clamped it down. Problem solved
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 150d
But...
northernlights@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 150d
Just remove the plastic thingy that if you're anything like me you're gonna lose anyway?
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 150d
You lose things on purpose before you lose them on accident, in order to retain a semblance of agency in your life?
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 150d
"paid extra" at the place that sells 50¢ hot dogs
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 150d
The price difference would've bought me 8 hot dogs!
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 150d
I actually don't think I get it. Is the handle backwards? 🤔
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 150d
It's about 4mm too short. It's a classic trope with clamps - you never have enough of them or the right one.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 150d
Ahhhh, fair enough, I don't DIY often enough to know the tropes lol
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 150d
TIL clamps have tropes.
robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 150d
Go buy a clamp stretcher. Life changing!
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 150d
Biltema spotted 👁️👄👁️