Stronger than I look!

[Boyd Who]

Ok, not really. However...I was surprised that I was able to snap this c-clamp simply by tightening it with my fingers.
I got a bunch of these clamps in a box of stuff at an auction earlier this summer and this was the first time I'd used one. Made in Taiwan...nuff said!

 

[e-tek]

Cheap metal hardened goes brittle.

 

[pgreen]

JB Weld will fix it right up!






Just JB it to the trash can!

 

[sams]

usually the Taiwan stuff isn't bad, but that there wow maybe it's one of the older products before they worked out metalurgy?

 

[JC23]

I hear if'n you take to Taiwan, they'll give ya a new one!

You're close, right?

 

[MatthewM]

I'd save the screw portion of it, might be usefull, I have cut several of these off and welded them on to benches or fixtures. They work well for making jigs and stuff.

 

[nvrenufrm]

I just don't understand why the Taiwan stuff, gets such a bad rap..oh, maybe because it really is ****. I don't know Taiwanese, but I suspect they don't have an equivalent word to our word pride.

 

[5lima30]

Make a bench dog out of the "C" section!

 

[hetkind]

Oh, I suspect that overly carboned cast iron won't weld so well. Not only did it have a "brittle" failure, but at a very low tensile stress.

I wonder what the actual cost difference of sand casting the frame, followed by machining, or drop forging with a simple taping operation?

 

[drmoonshine]

Hulk Angry!

 

[Steevo]

I have a box of old c-clamps like that. Some broken, some sprung to where the screw misses the clamp pad altogether, and some bent sideways.
Funny thing is they all say that there TAIWAN on 'em.

 

[tatra]

too many sal's nips...............

 

[SMKS]

I just don't understand why the Taiwan stuff, gets such a bad rap..oh, maybe because it really is ****.

That looks pretty old. I think Taiwan tools have made huge leaps and bounds over the last decade or two.

Old Japanese tools weren't very good, and look at them now. It takes time for industries to develop.

Still, I'm impressed at your strength. I'd be pretty surprised if a c-clamp popped while I was using it.

 

[Printer Mike]

Super glue it back together and use as a loaner...

 

[trainwreck]

Were you compressing a brake piston at the time? I've broken two or three foreign made c-clamps in the exact same way. I eventually learned my lesson (only took three times!) before I bought a piston compressor.

Oh, and I ended up replacing the clamps with Jorgensens which I like substantially better, though I haven't tried to compress a brake piston with them.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Looks like it's time for the scrap pile.

 

[Boyd Who]

I hear if'n you take to Taiwan, they'll give ya a new one!

You're close, right?

Yeah...right next door! Yeah!!

Hulk Angry!

too many sal's nips...............

I wonder if anyone other than you and I will understand this post.

Super glue it back together and use as a loaner...

Love it!!

Were you compressing a brake piston at the time? I've broken two or three foreign made c-clamps in the exact same way. I eventually learned my lesson (only took three times!) before I bought a piston compressor.

Oh, and I ended up replacing the clamps with Jorgensens which I like substantially better, though I haven't tried to compress a brake piston with them.

All I was doing was clamping a piece of 1x1 tubing to the frame on my Essex. I was upside down at the time, too. Took very little effort to snap the beast.

 

[fatboy99]

Hulk Angry!

Made my day

 

[RobSmith]

Buy cheap ...get cheap. Some learn. Others keep getting burnt.

 

[nvrenufrm]

That looks pretty old. I think Taiwan tools have made huge leaps and bounds over the last decade or two.

Old Japanese tools weren't very good, and look at them now. It takes time for industries to develop.

I could care less if "Taiwan tools have made huge leaps and bounds", or of Japanese tools development evolvements.

1. They still are junk
2. They still contribute to our unbalanced import/export exchange
3. They still take jobs away from Americans
4. They still contribute to closures of US manufacturing plants
5. They still do not contribute to erase our ever increasing national debt
6. I am an American, and will support our own whenever I am able to (with the ever increasing involvement of these and other foreign countries, it is harder and harder to do, no matter how hard you try). Buy American.