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Title: Mystery Clamp
Post by: hardpanman on December 12, 2016, 01:40:59 PM

    I ran across these clamps at the Goodwill Clearance Center. Cannot find any information on them. Any ideas on what they are supposed to clamp?

Title: Re: Mystery Clamp
Post by: Northwoods on December 12, 2016, 09:56:05 PM

Why are they grooved, why do they swivel, and why is there no pad on the end of the screw?

Title: Re: Mystery Clamp
Post by: hardpanman on December 13, 2016, 02:52:27 PM

Beats me.

Title: Re: Mystery Clamp
Post by: Northwoods on December 13, 2016, 03:02:28 PM

          ;-)

Title: Re: Mystery Clamp
Post by: john k on December 20, 2016, 02:19:05 PM

Studied these a bit,  am thinking for clamping something to tubing or pipe.   The bottom swivels so as to fit more compactly into a case, seen something like these long ago.  When?????

Title: Re: Mystery Clamp
Post by: crankshaftdan II on December 29, 2016, 09:47:30 PM

Possibly a overhead leveling clamp for holding black iron or galvanized pipe--the flat groved part fits into a sheet metal clamp that gets anchored into a concrete ceiling with powder actuated loads or anchorments via hammerdrill.   the screw levels the pipe in a horizontial fashion or gives it pitch for drainage or other applications...MY WAG

Title: Re: Mystery Clamp
Post by: Chillylulu on January 05, 2017, 04:50:21 AM

Not a pipe hanger, nothing like it in any of the old catalogs. 

A lot of hangers,  in the day, were simply bent rod.

Chilly