Friends, in addition to buying a welding machine and a grinder, so that you can normally do welding, you will have to make a lot of homemade devices.
I will show one of such simple but important homemade products in today's article. Do you know what it's called?
She has many names - karkalyga, monkey, crocodile, gavryushka, dog, fork, comb, and many more!
This is what this simple homemade product looks like. There are no exact dimensions or manufacturing guidelines. Made of arbitrary sizes for your needs. This is the simplest clamp. The clamping force is due to the lever.
The crocodile works like this - you need to weld the sheet metal to the frame (example), in order to tightly press these two parts, we use this clamp, press and weld, everything is simple!
We make the size between the clamps according to our goals, which parts of which sizes need to be pressed. And it is best to make several such homemade products, I have 3 of them, you can work with different sizes of welded structures.
Friends, I shot a detailed video where I tell you what kind of crocodile, karkalyga and monkey it is! Let's see, it will be especially useful for self-taught beginners.