I'm looking to have a clamp made for larger five-pole arms (approximately .750"+ diameter arms). It can be made out of any 1/2" bar stock that's easy and handy, but nonferrous is best... aluminum, brass, but I guess aluminum would be least expensive.
I can supply a rough drawing... anyone?
-john
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, Jul 13 2014 07:58 AM
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Posted 13 July 2014 - 07:58 AM
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Posted 13 July 2014 - 09:43 AM
I can make that for you John, if you get no takers..............
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Posted 13 July 2014 - 02:26 PM
That would be great Rick. I'll do up a drawing, and thanks! I seem to have gotten some more call for these arms as of late, so when I got another question about one recently, I figure it's time to jump onboard.
-john
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Posted 13 July 2014 - 10:53 PM
Rick has made 3 different size clamps for me in the past 12 months and they are all perfect 
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Posted 14 July 2014 - 06:28 AM
Yes, my first crank and clamps came from Rick and I still have and use them all the time after all these years.
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Posted 04 August 2014 - 04:13 PM
Yes, my first crank and clamps came from Rick and I still have and use them all the time after all these years.
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I'm still using an old LaGanke winder, with 36D, 26D, and 16D head clamps. But I don't think any of them would take a .750 dia. armature! 
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 05:20 PM
Boy...having used this clamp (made by a blogger) for a while now, it's one of those that just makes me smile every time. Reminds me of the old song..."what a difference a clamp makes" 
I've got an old ginormous DC85 arm in this bad boy right now, and even doing a sequential wind isn't quite so painful!
-john
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 05:52 PM
Sounds like the perfect addition to your arsenal of motor winding tools John Did you mention a DC85 arm?
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Posted 23 August 2014 - 07:07 AM
Yep Paul...and it's a lovely thing...in a big brutish kind of way. Oh yeah and boy, those Pittman coms are absolute junk. Astonishing that they held together at all.
-john
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