Random Tip #2 - Mag-Blocks Cure Clamping Ills
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I have often run into a time when I want to clamp to a surface that is not well designed for it.   I have some stamped saw horses I use that use a "U" channel for the horizontal beam.  This makes clamping a pain.  I used some rare earth magnets that I picked up on the cheap at Harbor Freight.  You can use whatever you may have; damaged magnets, scratched magnets, magnets scrounged out of hard drives; whatever.

You can see the upside down "U" channel here: 
   
I recess the magnets so they are just a hair below the surface. Since I will be clamping on the block I don't want to crush the magnets DAMHIKT (sorry for the poor pic):
   
The laminated block of ply was a larger blank.  I drum-sanded it to the right thickness and then sliced it into four blocks.  It fits the saw horses just right:
   
Now you can clamp away.  Of course everything in your shop will be a different depth of cavity but, the blocks do not have to fit perfect, they just have to be thicker than the cavity is deep.  I use them several places:
   
   
   
When I was young I sought the wisdom of the ages.  Now it seems I've found the wiz-dumb of the age-ed.


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Good idea. Better than using hot glue or DS taped.
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