A Handy Cramp.
I hoh o | The illustration herewith I * * represents a handy tool for FT amateurs, which will bo I found very useful, and it can j be constructed by anyone with a little ingenuity and patience. Take a piece of hard wood (blue gum is suitable) about five feet long, and plane it down to about three inches broad by fiver eighths of an inch thick, and make a few notches on the under side to hold the tail piece. To one end attach part of an old hand screw, letting the long piece into it and securing with wooden dowels. The tail piece is 1 merely a block of wood, C which is attached by means of two pieces of hoop iron, one on either side, with a rivet through oaeh end, one being driven right through the tail piece and the other intended to fit in one or other / J of the grooves, according to 1 Q^^j the length of the job to be ' cramped up. This cool will be found of great use to amateurs and others doing r little jobs of woodwork. A very good pressure can be . , ! got with it, far more than would bo thought at first' sight. The tail piece may bo made more complete by having a tongue to fit in a groove made in the lower piece, and screws may be put in place of the notchos. [From the " Now Zealand Farmer."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 383, 10 July 1889, Page 6
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243A Handy Cramp. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 383, 10 July 1889, Page 6
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