RE: How to make a "good" copper tubing clamp

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Original poster: "Rich" <rdjmgmt-at-socket-dot-net> 

  RE: How to make a "good" copper tubing clamp

Go to a hot rod shop, or air craft supply and ask for an Adel clamp. It
is a metal strap 1/4 to 1/3 wide with a small bolt to clamp with. You
can get them in SS , steel , Ti and alum , from 1/4 dia up to 3 or 4
inches.  I use them to hold coax bundles to my tower and elec lines .
They are used to hold down fuel , elec and hyd lines.

Rich

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Subject: Re: How to make a "good" copper tubing clamp

Original poster: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
  >
  > Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation"
<dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com>
  >
  > I've tried this quite a bit.  However, it cannot retain positive
clamping
  > force after a bunch of times of removing the clamp etc...
  > The copper eventually deforms to the size of the copper tubing.
  >
  > Dan

	Not if you use restraint in tightening the bolt; the stuff work
hardens.  Why do you find it necessary to remove it "a bunch of times"?

Ed