<div style="color: black; ">-----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman t: Re: [pianotech] mystery clamp   <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_27eee20c-c6b3-4966-b5cb-aae3bcb93910" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><pre style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><tt> That's 'cause you're old, Avery. , like me... Nope. This isn't an angle clamp. It's part of a two piece straight bar type thing like Joe described, user supplying the bar. I was just hoping for specifics on the thing, since it isn't apparently a common item or brand, if it ever was. Thanks anyway, Ron N </tt></pre><pre style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><tt> </tt></pre><pre><tt> Actually, what you got there is a timber stretcher, or at least, half of one. They came in pairs, and were used by </tt></pre><pre><tt>carpenters </tt>when they mistakenly cut a board just a little short. Clamping these on both ends of the board, they were butted </pre><pre>up against an adjustable steel spacer between them, and you just cranked the clamps against the steel and stretched that </pre><pre>board out to fit. If only one end was short, then you only cranked that end. </pre><pre>Haven't seen those things in a long while, thanks for the memories, </pre><pre>Regards, </pre><pre>Ed Foote RPT</pre><pre> </pre><pre><tt> </tt></pre> </div>  </div>