Homemade Deep Throat C Clamps

[556man]

Hello,

Anyone here made their own deep throat C clamp? I have a bunch of 4" HF C clamps and was thinking of converting some into deep c clamps similar to this.



Just wondering what kind of materials would be best on extending the C clamp.

Thanks,
556man

[Hotfoot]

I just pick up the HF deep throats when they are on sale at the store, usually about $6-7.00, as i recall. the problem in trying to extend what you have is they are cast, so welding anything to take the strain is going to take a lot of skill, and mating material to that Chinese cast might be impossible.

[556man]

I just pick up the HF deep throats when they are on sale at the store, usually about $6-7.00, as i recall. the problem in trying to extend what you have is they are cast, so welding anything to take the strain is going to take a lot of skill, and mating material to that Chinese cast might be impossible.

Didn't know HF have them. I was checking out their website last night for this and didn't find one. At that price I'll just buy one. Will wait for the sale.

Thanks Hotfoot,

556man

[Rocky D]

Hello,

Anyone here made their own deep throat C clamp? I have a bunch of 4" HF C clamps and was thinking of converting some into deep c clamps similar to this.


Just wondering what kind of materials would be best on extending the C clamp.

Thanks,
556man

I've made clamps with cold rolled rectangular steel (CRS) before and they work OK...

[556man]

I've made clamps with cold rolled rectangular steel (CRS) before and they work OK...

Good idea Rocky and I'm sure it would look better than a frankensteined C clamp.

Thanks,
556man

[Rocky D]

This is one I extended:

[556man]

That looks real good Rocky. I'll try making one and see if my weld holds. Thanks for the picture.

556man

[pegleg1]

Rocky
What kind of clamp is that? Do you have a full pic of it....? I needed a deep throat clamp last weekend and I was using 2x4's and rope to do what I needed..... I needed a beer after that jerry rigging.

[Hotfoot]

Rocky
What kind of clamp is that? Do you have a full pic of it....? I needed a deep throat clamp last weekend and I was using 2x4's and rope to do what I needed..... I needed a beer after that jerry rigging.

You can slide the little bar under the picture to view the rest of it.

[Rocky D]

Rocky
What kind of clamp is that? ...

It's a Knu-Vise 2404-l ....2400 psi grip pressure

[pegleg1]

Well, I feel like a dumb $%$. I did not even look that close a the pic... And NO I did not had a drink at all. Maybe I should have, just to get the brain cells working.

Thanks

[stevinator]

Good ideas, I saw where a guy made some nice ones too out of the welding vise grip type clamps.He extended them like Rocky did his.