Glue Press (C-Clamp)

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This self-made wooden GLUE PRESS model, used by my father in the 1950s for constructing wooden airplane models, employs an eccentrically pivoted lever rather than screws to provide a smooth clamping force on balsa wood components. Foam rubber pads protect sensitive surfaces. The design was created by Erich Gudrian, a pattern maker at "Farbwerke HOECHST" and RC-model enthusiast, who was a friend of my father. I meticulously recreated this simple tool's design in a STEP-file (.stp), along with native files (.prt) and (.asm) in a .zip folder for users of "PTC Creo Parametric 2.0".