RE: How to make a "good" copper tubing clamp

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Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com> 

 >Just curious if anyone had a good way to make a wire clamp that would
 >fit over refrigeration copper tubing (primary coil) of about 1/2" to
 >3/4" in diameter.

Hi Dan

You could make a clamp from a spare piece of the same tubing, cut to length
and mashed flat in a vice. This produces a nice copper "strip", then you can
drill a hole in each end, wrap it round the primary conductor, and clamp
with a nut and bolt passed through the holes.

You'll probably want to use large washers underneath the nut and bolt or
they might just tear through the soft copper if you wrench it up tightly.

If you make the strip a little too long, and leave one of the ends
un-mashed, then you can poke your cable into this end and solder it in place
with a blowtorch.. et voila.. a 2 in 1 terminal and clamp :)

Steve C.