There's folks here with direct experience here. But to answer the question, yes. I think its a fine idea. I worked in a pipe organ shop for 3 years, and there we used vacuum clamping for toe boards and for the tops and bottoms of windchests. It is a great way to go, especially for wide pieces of work. (The windchests were about one meter wide) Setup can be a little fussy. In the organ shop we protected all the corners and edges with plush carpet, so that when the work came out of the vacuum, the corners and edges were not crushed. But I already have clamps, and I've been spending money on tools at an astonishing rate! For the next one I'll fabricate thick, flat top and bottom clamping boards. They'll be constructed as "torsion boxes" and I'll clamp with those. -- Duane McGuire 801-830-5858 http://blog.duanemcguire.com On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Greg Newell <gnewell at ameritech.net> wrote: > Duane, > > Have you considered vacuum clamping as a solution to the > inherent unevenness of clamps and pressure bars? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100407/d99e004a/attachment.htm>
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