Bessey clamp stretchers

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NYC Tiny Shop said:
Recently had to use pocket hole screws to hold together two loft bed frames that were dominoed with the DF700XL. Each frame was 67" long. My largest Besseys are 50". Pic below is one of the frames.
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I made these "Bessey stretchers" to clamp up a 78" wide headboard. I dadoed a 29mm channel, 10mm deep. Misc. nuts and bolts to fit in the holes in the clamp bars.
 

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festup said:
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NYC Tiny Shop said:
Recently had to use pocket hole screws to hold together two loft bed frames that were dominoed with the DF700XL. Each frame was 67" long. My largest Besseys are 50". Pic below is one of the frames.
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I made these "Bessey stretchers" to clamp up a 78" wide headboard. I dadoed a 29mm channel, 10mm deep. Misc. nuts and bolts to fit in the holes in the clamp bars.
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Great Idea, thanks for sharing.

Jack
 
Now that is a great idea!  [thumbs up]

Seth
 
Sparktrician said:
Bessey offers their own version called a KBX20 Extender. 
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Yeah, I saw those. I would have needed three of them. $60 for something I don't use very often. Less tha $5 worth of nuts and bolts, and I could make them the length I wanted.
 
Sparktrician said:
Bessey offers their own version called a KBX20 Extender. 
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I have these and they do a nice job. I am not sure I would say that I would trust them to keep things at 90 deg. But they do work quick and well.
 
I also really like that floor.  Is that a rubber floor?  I was looking at those, and was wondering if it would be susceptible to trapping sawdust.  What thickness did you go with?
 
amt said:
I also really like that floor.  Is that a rubber floor?  I was looking at those, and was wondering if it would be susceptible to trapping sawdust.  What thickness did you go with?
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The flooring is rubber. It's 8mm thick from rubberflooringinc.com. It comes in 4' wide rolls cut to lengths that you specify. I absolutely love it. It cleans up easily, just take the Festool vac to it. I also scrub it with a wet towel now and then. It lays right over concrete in my basement shop. I used the double sticky tape that they sell. Doesn't creep at all. I knocked my Domino off the MFT onto it, no damage. Much more forgiving than concrete... My basement is very dry, I'm in Colorado. If I did have water problems, it would be easy to pull up and dry out.
 
I think your idea is very well executed, but I don't think I could talk myself into cutting a bessey clamp unless it was damaged.

Then again, I have some 5 footers and 8 footers so that kinda means I shouldn't need to do that.
 
wow said:
I think your idea is very well executed, but I don't think I could talk myself into cutting a bessey clamp unless it was damaged.

Then again, I have some 5 footers and 8 footers so that kinda means I shouldn't need to do that.
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Why in the 1st place would You  have to cut the bessey bar ??   ???

the ends are reverse-able &/or removable .  a  pair of short Bessy are one long one with this idea

I think it's a great idea  [eek] [big grin] [smile] I'm thinking I could do that in some 1" x 1" bar stock cut a slot in each end
I bought a mess of the 8'  AL 1x1" bar stock on Ebay  cheap awhile ago  [tongue]
no need to buy anymore long Besseys for me now !  ;D
with the last Amazon Bessey sale & the Black Friday Jet sale I'm set with these type clamps & now the long issue is solved  [blink]

 
wow said:
I think your idea is very well executed, but I don't think I could talk myself into cutting a bessey clamp unless it was damaged.

Then again, I have some 5 footers and 8 footers so that kinda means I shouldn't need to do that.
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There's no cutting required. The newer Besseys have a plastic cap and a hole in the ends. Pull out the cap, reverse the clamp head, connect them and clamp away.
 
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