How to make your own pipe clamp

[baconbuttyman]

While i was tackling the job of flushing through my heater matrix, I needed some pipe clamps, on ebay they are about £5 a set, in the auto shop they are about £20.
I have never been one for spending money i dont need to (yes i did need those seat belt bold covers!!) i set about making my own.
So what i used was 2 6" nails and 2 good cable ties (dont use rubbish ones as you really dont want them to fail) per pipe, i needed to clamp two pipes

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so what you need to do is lay two nails head to toe and just cable tie one end.

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So take the clamp and place the hose between the two nails and close the other end of the nails to clamp the pipe. Use a pair of grips etc to close the nails tight enough to trap the pipe.

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Place a cable tie on the other end and tighten it up as tighten as mush as you can, remove the plier and there you have a clamped pipe

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Hope this is of use to some one

[xanadu]

interesting, I may add this to one of the newsletters