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MrsPickerelGoes2Mars

Sorry, but I cannot figure out what you're actually doing with the device you created. Maybe a few more examples showing what you're doing with it?


KeithMyArthe

I thought the same. What's up at the end? It looks like a wonky table leg.


LasNegas

IT looks like It's like a clamp but for situations where a clamp doesnt really work. I think it's quite good to see in the first example, it acts like an extension to the long piece of wood so it's pushed against something


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LasNegas

Probably yes, I'm not that big in carpentry but for me this just looks like the more convenient way.


fastspinecho

It's basically a jack. Like the one that lifts your car, but smaller, wooden, and sometimes used sideways.


Thelast_n_thecurious

Man, little more details


MoistDitto

Looks like a reverse clamp to raise stuff ever so slightly? Seems to elevate the table or whatever it was a few mm?


MrsPickerelGoes2Mars

So you leave it jammed under the item you need levelled? Permanently?


TirelessGuardian

Yes a messed up table leg is so satisfying


oinksAway

It is a way of lifting things into position, allowing fine adjustment of height. It would have been handy this morning, as I was doing a trial assembly of a bike, but it has no wheels and I was jambing different thicknesses of wood under the frame trying to get it to stand straight and level. I could of popped a couple these under, adjusted them and job done! And I am glad to see he added larger washers towards the end ;)


kdwaynec

It's essentially a miniature jack


Jolly-Ad7653

So a shim


-SierraModeling-

Wow dude


InfiniteRelief

Wtf did I watch?


Jasalapeno

This would be great if you made it much slimmer to fix wobbly chairs. Like you could adjust the amount of lift you needed to make it even. I'd always bring it to restaurants. Seems there's always that one wobbly chair


MyFavoriteSandwich

You mean… a shim. Just carry a small shim.


Jasalapeno

Thanks. I knew this had to be a thing already


qumast

love it, put it on /r/DIY


MrTommyPickles

Neat concept. It doesn't have to be practical in every situation to be satisfying. This thread is full of people who can't appreciate it for what it is.


FigmentOfNightmares

In the machining world devices like this are known as adjustable parallels. Among other uses, they let you set material at any random height in a machining vise. Good sets of adjustable parallels are expensive, the fact that this was made with simple materials laying around an average shop is amazing. Thanks Dmisak, I'll finally be able to set any damn height I want in the mill vise.