Wooden fixtures never lose their relevance, do not go out of fashion. They are highly environmentally friendly, natural, almost any piece of furniture is constructed from them. They serve long time and well amenable to restoration. From wood, you can make stools, doors, steps with your own hands. For production, the master needs numerous tools to work with the material. These are carpentry wimes. They are familiar to everyone, but its size is much larger.
Why do we need carpentry clamps
Making wooden products with your own hands is not an easy job that requires high precision performance of work, ability to work with the tool. Do-it-yourself carpentry clamps should not be called a press, as they are not equipped with a mechanism for drying glue. They are a large and powerful clamp.
Joiner's wyms are used for such cases:
- gluing parts that have an unusual shape;
- fixing facing edges;
- assembly of puff and shields, timber;
- construction of frames, furniture frames, chairs;
- facing of relief, flat and three-dimensional surfaces;
- wood splicing;
- assembly of frame products (window, door);
- production of steps, stairs.
Handmade product manufacturing
Making clamps with your own hands is not a difficult task. At the heart of the wyma design is a load-bearing beam with high strength. For this purpose, a profile pipe is used. It has a square or rectangular section. More load-bearing beam do-it-yourself wyms are made from a metal corner or piece. The last option allows you to build quality construction wymy, but it will turn out to be very heavy.
The main condition for using the material is its high strength and resistance to stress. A do-it-yourself wedge should not be deformed during use. In the manufacture of clamps, you need to pay attention to the strength of the stops, which will experience a high load.
What materials will be required
To build homemade clamp, first you need to collect necessary materials and tools. For work you will need:
- profile pipe, metal corner or channel;
- fasteners: nuts, screws, self-tapping screws;
- stops;
- building level and squares;
- apparatus for metal welding;
- wooden pads.
Do-it-yourself carpentry clamps must be strong and strong, otherwise, with great effort, you can bend or break the structure. To prevent this from happening, the stops must be resistant to heavy loads, well fixed on the beam. It is necessary to make sure that they can easily move in the longitudinal direction. To be able to process large-sized workpieces with your own hands, you need to fix the clamps on the rims so that they can be moved.
Fasteners must also have high strength. It is better to give preference to a reinforced structure and nuts. Due to the high load, store materials break quickly. In order for do-it-yourself carpentry clamps to turn out to be of high quality and effective, you should order fasteners and stops in a turning workshop.
Work instructions
All work on the production of wyma with your own hands involves several stages:
- Profile pipe preparation. Its length is 1.2 m.
- Assembly of structures on bolts. The elements of the clamp will be convenient to weld together. For assembly on corners, the length of which is 250 cm, a channel is attached at the same distance.
- Edge 1 of the channel and a short corner should be perpendicular to each other, and located between long fragments. Under the nuts, it is necessary to put gaskets, the thickness of which is 1 cm.
- Processing of joints by welding. Internal joint a short corner and a channel is not processed. If this condition is not met, the seam obtained as a result of welding will create problems when gluing wooden blanks.
- Making clips from metal rod. Its diameter is 5 cm. A 1 cm hole is drilled at the end of the screw. 2 ball bearings are installed inside it to reduce friction.
- Nut welding. The screw must be parallel to the profile. If this rule is not observed, the part will be clamped with punching.
- Making clips from the corner and fixing them. For fixation, holes are drilled in the material, the diameter of which is 1.2 cm. Pins are inserted here to change the position of the workpiece during the manufacture of a wooden product.
Stops are welded to the bottom of the resulting structure, thanks to which it will be stable. During the manufacture of a wyma with your own hands, you need to ensure that all the details are parallel. For this, the building level is used. Welds should be small. In the process of fastening parts, it is important to ensure that the metal does not deform during heating.
Features of manufacturing a simple wyma from self-tapping screws and timber
Sometimes the master needs a large clamp to make one product. This does not require a permanent structure. With your own hands, you can build disposable wyms. To make a tool you will need:
- wooden beam;
- durable long screws;
- jigsaw or hacksaw;
- screwdriver;
- carpentry axe.
To properly build a structure, you first need to make its drawing. The manufacturing technology of a simple wyma is as follows:
- wooden elements are placed in horizontal position on a flat surface;
- place the workpiece. The distance between the elements is 40 cm;
- on both sides of it, a long beam is placed strictly parallel, fixed to the crossbars with self-tapping screws;
- to compress the workpiece, the wedge is wedged with special wedges;
- as soon as the product sticks together, the clamp should be disassembled. Its elements can be further used for different purposes.
Do-it-yourself carpentry clamps are an excellent tool for making doors, steps, window frames. Even if a person is not engaged in the production of furniture, he can significantly reduce the cost of repairing his home.
This tool has been made Alexey Vagin from Berezniki. As a starting material, a Soviet shelving system was used, which had been lying around in the garage for many years.
It is represented by several long racks, which were placed from floor to ceiling. The thickness of the metal is quite decent - 2 mm. The length of each profile reached 1220 mm. The pitch between the holes was 35 mm. 
Stops for shelves were attached to them with hooks, the shelves themselves have not been preserved over the years. In the photo there is an emphasis for shelves with hooks. 
In the process of familiarizing with carpentry wisdom, the idea was born to make a wyma from these profiles for gluing furniture panels.
In principle, everything is already ready: take it and use it, with the exception of one moment. There were not holes in the profile along the entire length. From the ends of 330 mm each, these holes were devoid of, which significantly reduced the length of the clamp. 
I had to improve. Given the lack of a "grinder", I had to work with my head, and then with a drill. Drilled several holes in a row 
and removed the jumpers between them with a washer, on which he hammered. 
Not very aesthetically pleasing, but angry, the main thing is that the stops are fixed.
To begin with, for a test, the wedge clamping principle was used, that is, the parts were placed on the frame between the most suitable clamps in terms of distance. And then, with the help of wedges, they pressed against each other and left to dry. 
The wedges were moved using a pistol clamp, which turned out to be a fairly convenient way. 
Subsequently, it is planned to simplify the clamping process by welding nuts into the holders into which the bolts will be screwed. By tightening the bolts, high-quality pressing will be achieved.
The design in this (wedge) configuration has already been tested. The results were found to be satisfactory.
Natural wood and how construction material, and as a material for the manufacture of furniture does not lose its relevance. Unfortunately, there are not many places left on the planet where trees grow, from the trunks of which one can make solid door leafs, countertops, or even wide window sills. Such a simple device as a wyma allows you to make glued ones - blanks for home and garden furniture with your own hands.
Production technology of glued wooden boards
Even if the material (log thickness) makes it possible to produce wide products, their further use raises a number of questions. things made of whole solid wood well, very capricious in operation. Those who have worked enough with wood know perfectly well what a “propeller board” is.
In order to wooden product from the array is not deformed, the material must be thoroughly dried beforehand and, preferably, kept for at least a month in the room where it is to be located. This condition is practically impossible when we are dealing with door leaf or window sill - humidity, temperature changes will inevitably lead to deformation of the product.
These shortcomings are deprived of elements from the glued array. Bars are taken from one or different ones, they are recruited into a single block and glued. In order for wooden blanks to become a single whole, a special device is used - wyma. With your own hands, you can easily assemble a fully functional device.
Simple wyma, collected "on the knee"
Sometimes there are situations that some kind of work needs to be done once. Let's suppose that it was decided to arrange a table made of glued spruce in a gazebo in the country. Does it make sense to buy expensive factory-made clamps? In such cases, a simple, in a sense disposable, do-it-yourself wyma is made. The drawings of the device are shown below.
In order to glue an array of blanks once, you will need long self-tapping screws, a screwdriver, a hacksaw and a carpenter's hatchet.
The blanks are stacked on a number of transverse bars (a bar every 40 ... 45 cm). On both sides of the workpiece, parallel to it, long longitudinal beams (equal in height to the workpiece) are laid and fastened to the crossbars with self-tapping screws. From above, again, the upper transverse bars are fastened with self-tapping screws. Here is the whole wyma, made by hand.
To compress the workpiece, it remains, as shown in the diagram, to wedge it with specially planed wooden wedges. After the product is ready, the wyma can be disassembled and the material used at your discretion.
Clamp made of steel profile
But sometimes craftsmen collect wyms no worse than the factory ones. Here is one option:
The clamping screw is first unscrewed to the stop. The slats are glued and laid on the hayma, starting from the clamping unit. After the array blank is typed, it is covered with the top profile pipe, with bolts in one of the pairs of holes (depending on the width of the future array), the mating node is fixed.
By turning the clamping bolt, the workpiece is compressed from the sides. The design of the clamp is made in such a way that the upper and lower tubes are also strongly pressed against each other when the screw is tightened, which makes the future workpiece perfectly flat. Such a wyma, made with your own hands, allows you to make any products - from cutting boards to door panels.
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