Did you ever do a project just because it was going to fun to do? That's how I started this project...
Dad had bought numerous Jorgensen wood clamps soon after he returned from WWII when he was setting up his first wood shop.
He made these brackets to hang them on the wall.
When he and I started to enlarge our wood shop in the late 1970's...
...he bought just a few more smaller one's, but he never got around to making a bracket to hang them on.
As long as I had some scrap cherry material left over from the little trim project a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make a smaller sized bracket for those clamps.
After the pieces were cut fairly close to size, the 2 outer boards were dado-ed to receive the center board that the clamps would hang from.
He used only 2 flat head wood screws that were counter sunk, one per side, to mechanically help hold the boards together along with gluing them.
After the pilot holes were drilled and counter sunk, the 3 pieces were glued and screwed and clamped together.
While those were drying...
...the outline of the shape of the wall bracket was traced onto paper, then scanned into my computer and reduced about 10% in size since this bracket was going to be slightly smaller in size to accommodate the smaller wood clamps.
In turn that design was traced onto the newly glued bracket and using his 1948, 14" Delta bandsaw they were cut to shape.
With them glued, cut and sanded it was time to drill the mounting holes.
He had used carriage bolts and...
... notice the angle that he installed them. That provided a clamping, squeezing pressure to more securely mount them on a wall. To duplicate that angle...
...I used my great-grandfather's sliding bevel square. This tool dates from around the turn of the century making it well over 100 years old.
With the angle established, I transferred it to Dad's old Delta floor drill press, by tilting the table. He bought that drill press in about 1936. With the table locked...
...the bracket was clamped to the table. To aid in clamping...
...this block was fabricated decades ago, to provide a nice surface to clamp to since there are casting ribs under the table.
That block has always worked perfectly for us through the years as you can see. Simple, but effective.
The drill point was centered punched. I drilled a smaller pilot hole first and then enlarged it to the final size.
That tilted table worked nicely so next step was to...
...create spacers with angled counter bore holes for the washers and nuts. Look closely and you can see that it is angled.
I selected a small block of walnut for my 2 spacers and used the 20" Delta bandsaw to cut it to proper thickness.
The spacer was clamped to the drill press and using a Forstner bit...
...the angled counter-bore was drilled. Then the bolt hole was drilled.
With both ends of the walnut block counter-bored and drilled, I then cut them apart on the bandsaw. I had initially left them together in one piece so I had a larger piece to work with while drilling.
The idea behind angling these spacers is that the side of the spacer next to the wall will be parallel to the backside of the wall when the brackets are installed.
Last step was to relieve the area for the square shoulders of the carriage bolts just a little bit. I used a small chisel for that.
So there are the carriage bolts installed. Once the bracket is installed on the wall and the bolts tightened down, the bolt heads will draw down into the bracket a little bit more, but not a whole lot.
This is how it looks with the small wood clamps...
...in place.
So...
... this one's for you Dad. I miss you every day, especially when I'm in the wood shop surrounded by your presence. Every tool I use of yours or great grand-dad's, I think back to our time together over the years. I am grateful for everything you taught me, and how to use and properly care for your tools and equipment. Even though you're no longer here, know that it was and still is an honor to be your son.
Thankful Thomas
Thomas, I can not find the way to send a message. I plan to make the trip to visit your shop. Will bring the home supervisor along. Thanks for the invitation.
Good deal Ron, we'll make note of that. I'll send you a private message shortly and you can then let me know you received it.
Hello there Calvin, it works both ways you know. Chris and I get to meet all of the wonderful folks, like yourself, who have been following our adventures here for the past, um, 12 years. That we are looking forward to. Over the years there have been many who have stopped by and it's been lots of fun so this should be a really special treat. Send me a PM and I'll reply with additional information about the open house. Looking forward to meeting you.
Lots of fun. The driver of the GTO is a friend of mine from drag racing and he's still smarting from the loss. The round that I did lose was from a terrible start reaction time from me. All my fault there. In all 3 rounds the Chevy II ran the quicker times. That was the only drag race event I ran last year and the slow ET's show it. Hope to get a few more races in this year, I'll see how that goes."Is this old news? Sorry if it is." J808
Hello J808, well the video made at the PSMCRD race was last September in Stanton, Michigan. And so that, I guess, makes it old but I don't think I've ever posted it here so that makes it new! I had nothing to do with creation of the video, it was done independently. Not really fond of how he does it with those comments of his, but if you look past that it does give pretty good factual information and the quality of the video is decent as well.
The little Chevy II strikes down another big block!
Thanks for posting the video for those who might have missed it. The car will be available for inspection at the open house in June for those who can make it.
Thomas
I agree with you on the videos. The pure stock drag racing is fun to watch for me because of its simplicity and reflection to the hey day of drag racing. P.S 62's are one of my favorites, thanks."Is this old news? Sorry if it is." J808
Hello J808, well the video made at the PSMCRD race was last September in Stanton, Michigan. And so that, I guess, makes it old but I don't think I've ever posted it here so that makes it new! I had nothing to do with creation of the video, it was done independently. Not really fond of how he does it with those comments of his, but if you look past that it does give pretty good factual information and the quality of the video is decent as well.
The little Chevy II strikes down another big block!
Thanks for posting the video for those who might have missed it. The car will be available for inspection at the open house in June for those who can make it.
Thomas
The 428 too?
Unfortunately, I will not much as I wish I could. Next Saturday the 14th is our annual car club, car show fund raiser so Chris and I will be busy prepping and running that. We raise funds every year for Cunningham Children's Home which is based in nearby Urbana, IL.
www.corvettemuseum.org
Many thanks to you Vette60 for the nice post and others for the kind words and good wishes.
