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The hold down clamp trick that saved my 30-drawer office job in Tacoma
I was fighting with drawer fronts sliding around on a big commercial job last spring. Tried double sided tape and it left residue everywhere. Then an old timer told me to use a scrap of sandpaper between the clamp and the wood. It held everything rock solid through 30 drawers and zero movement. I finished the whole thing in 2 days instead of the 4 I budgeted. Anyone else got a weird trick for keeping work pieces from shifting?
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michaeld481mo ago
Hot glue sounds like a great way to accidentally bond the drawer to the workbench forever. That sandpaper trick is a gem though. I once spent an hour trying to clamp a drawer front that kept doing a slow spin like a lazy susan. Ended up wedging a pencil under the clamp and it worked surprisingly well until the pencil snapped and sent the wood flying across the shop. Now that was a real career highlight.
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miller.rowan1mo ago
I always thought hot glue was overkill but that trick with sandpaper sounds like it actually works.
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