modest cipher
Does anyone know if these can be purchased separately, or if they're using some standard off the shelf steel form that can be purchased by the metre?
They sell all the component parts of their clamps separately but not the dang bars as far as my searches bear out 😦
(in before 'just use pipe clamps' https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/pipe-for-pipe-clamps.125524/ )
The principal reason is I have some of these clamps, I just need them to be a bit longer, and buying two more full clamp assemblies just to get the longer bars is ridiculous.
modest cipher
That requires the presence of other, shorter bars...
... which I would have to purchase separately.
😂
I mean it totally would, if I had an adequate number of bars. Which I do not 😦
dreamy hare
Well dammit man!
modest cipher
Cynically I expect it;s so you have to pay over the odds for whole long clamps you don't want/need
Though sure, sure, you can never have enough clamps.
🙂
But seems to me just flogging the bar itself wouldn't kill 'em
dreamy hare
I’m sure not selling bar stock helps sales overall…
modest cipher
Right
And I'm nagged thinking Bessey probably aren't paying for the manufacture of a specific extrusion, right....
... so if I could find that....
I mean it makes sense if you design around something, that you design around something you can source easily - custom manufacture being a last resort.
dreamy hare
It’s probably proprietary to them, but might get lucky.
modest cipher
OOH!
Here we go!
#3101612
€169 !?!
Yikes, maybe it is a proprietary hardened steel part afterall.
Well, that answers that! Thanks m_203 🙂
dreamy hare
Capitalism at its finest for ya there. Sorry mate.
modest cipher
Well if it needs to be what it is then it costs what it costs.
But as you can see on the forum above, pipe clamps in the UK come with their own set of problems - namely finding someone with the right taps to thread 'em.
I think when the time comes for th elong clamps, I'll either endure the gauntlet of sourcing 3/4" iron pipe and taps, or pony up.
modest badger
Would any of your big box stores have a threading machine in the same aisle as the iron pipes?
Home Depot has such a threading machine.
The challenge is finding the certified guy to operate the machine!
modest cipher
No, iron pipe work went out as soon as plastics were brought in for gas mains, the only place you'll find threading equipment like that now is s with a specialist