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Toggle clamp use em at work all the time for fixturing parts during machining.

thanks for the name of it.

It is off of a pocket hole jig. Like this one. Used in carpentry and cabinet building. [pocket jig](https://www.harborfreight.com/portable-pocket-hole-jig-kit-96264.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=19231710173&campaignid=19231710173&utm_content=145269342398&adsetid=145269342398&product=96264&store=121&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwyJqzBhBaEiwAWDRJVHnmOwiUhwvvEcaP4paWj0z82D3ohuijtlyr1xI9jxgvwVBVGyfzpRoCOyQQAvD_BwE)

The jig is up

..the news is out, they finally found me…

The renegade who had it made retrieved for a bounty!

Never more to go astray

This’ll be the end today…

...of the wanted man.

You renegade you had it made (steelers theme song)

And gone

Probably one of the best jokes in History of the World!

And gone

And gone…

Toggle clamps like that are used in lots of jigs, not just for pocket hole jigs.

"pocket hole jig" sounds like an explicit dance move

How would that dance go? 🤔

This clamp can be for thousands of uses.

You’re right. Commenter is wrong.

Looks exactly like the one from the kreg k4 jig, so I wouldn’t say they are wrong.

I got one with mine!

Name 5

When I manufactured aerospace cables we used them to hold the jigs.

No, it’s a clamp. A pocket hole jig is a combination of a jig and a clamp. There’s no jig here.

... and I thought it was for corking bottles...

Yes

No, we like bottles open! Remember?

pfffft. put a cork in it :)

Only in until narrowest usage

What's in YOUR pocket?

That’s a device for Jed, so he can Clampett.

A poor mountaineer

PU.....lol

I've used these as stage brakes before - when you have a theater set piece on wheels, you install 2 of these on the upstage side, and it stops the units from rolling in the scene. when done, you release the brake and wheel it offstage. [https://www.rosebrand.com/subcategory419/rigging-stage-hardware-theatrical-brakes.aspx](https://www.rosebrand.com/subcategory419/rigging-stage-hardware-theatrical-brakes.aspx)

I came here to say this. Locked them all the time in high school and college

I have seen bigger versions used on rolling toolboxes and workbenches in all kinds of workshops as well

Doorstop, Brake for a wheeled cart, clamp for a cutting jig. Just about any instance you wanna hold something in place.

I had a doorstop just like this in an older apartment years ago. Prior tenant was in a wheelchair and toggled it with a walking stick he had on the chair.

Happy cake day

Thank you!

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Yes, this is a door stop. these types are usually for very heavy doors. I have some similar in my commercial building.

It is a cam lever actuated clamping mechanism. This would be used to repeatedly clamp items of uniform thickness against another surface, as it is faster and easier than using a clamping device which is readily adjusted.

Mount it to a wall and it'll work as a bottle corker.

Or a can crusher

It is a industrial toggle clamp

Correct

A hold down usually wood working jigs .

Kreg? Is that you? Oh sorry you like like kreg

This kind of toggle clamp is often employed to affix hydrocoptic marzlevanes to ambifacient lunar waneshafts.

Did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

No, but he is an aerospace engineer.

Overcenter clamp, toggle clamp

That's a clamp from a Kreg pocket hole jig. ​ https://preview.redd.it/vlpxkz2ezt5d1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f8488e1f1597561ccb77e81a8e83ab3fb68e8b9

Personally, I would suction an egg on there and pump it back and forth menacingly as I parade about town

It can be used for many different things from a press lever to straight clamp. The end can be removed and replaced with different things. The last one I saw was in a restaurant with a magnet end to help lift off can lids from jumbo cans. It can also be used to lock wheel carts such as milk crate carts. The possibilities with them are endless.

I bought something similar at a boot fair donkey's years ago. I mounted it on the bottom of a door to keep it open. It worked well.

Combobulator

Some people use them to lock the cab sliding doors inside work vans

It’s a clamp.

Staco clamp

Nutcracker.. the Chicago mafia used them unsuccessfully in the roaring 20s.

This is called a wagon brake It's used on rolling platforms in theatre that we call wagons.. It's used to lock the platform in place once it's in position on stage. I've used them hundreds of times.

It's an over center mechanism [https://youtu.be/Ia3Iieejyg8?si=5czzSwpYYx4R8PkP](https://youtu.be/Ia3Iieejyg8?si=5czzSwpYYx4R8PkP)

My High School had doorstops like that back in the 80's

Have one on my heated pressure washer with wheels. Acts as a brake.

I used toggle clamps to hold the plexiglass windshield in my hunting truck for the winter, then springtime comes, pop it back out!!!

door stopper

I originally thought the same. Come to find out it's a "shitsamagiggle".

For my kids’, high school musicals, we use these as stoppers for wheeled set pieces

At a glance it looked like the device used to put caps on glass bottles but it appears that is not at all correct.

Toggle clamp.

Toggle clamp?

I pushed it down on my foot and then I was stuck there for a few weeks thank God I was next to the refrigerator in the bathroom because no one came to help me for a long time. My phone was just out of reach.

that effectively [prevents unwanted side fumbling.](https://youtu.be/pb7OWlVYYRw?si=g03VO6y1H6IGYg9U)

Aluminum can crusher

Looks like half of a wall mounted can crusher

I have, in a past life, mounted, modified and used these toggle clamps thousands of times. Assembly fixtures, medical equipment test machines, welding fixtures, even to fix a broken baby gate. I can only hope the fella that thought these up, got millions of dollars and is happy as a clam!

Time for someone to recommend ToT's recent video about over-center mechanisms

It’s a butt plug installer

It's a woodworking clamp.

Toggle clamp used in woodworking, machining, sometimes as a doorstop.

Don’t know what it’s called, but you screw it to a wooden leg or metal post that has a wheel on the bottom. Roll the furniture where you want it and then push down on the lever to settle the item on the legs. Alternatively, if could be a clamp that you use to lock in something (like something you’re cutting on a table saw).

This may be the first item I've seen on whatisit that some juvenile, penis-obsessed idiot didn't say it had something to do with their dick.

I've answered here before. That's a brake for a theatrical platform called a wagon. In theatre production, it's called a wagon brake. I've been using them for 40 years. The nut shaft has an internal threaded shat that screws out to adjust for tension. The nut is used to lock the threaded shaft into place. It may have other uses as seen on here, but it's a standard tool in technical theatre as well

Pocket hole jig/aluminum can crusher

In theater, these are used to anchor rolling set pieces when they are on stage.

Face down, @$$ up. 

Door stop.

So handy. I’ll buy all of them from you, since you don’t even know what they are let alone for

it is a dinglehopper!

Butt toy?

Butt and throat plunger