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Here's my Smitty clamp

I scratched my head for quite a while trying to figure out how to "clamp", as the instructions say, the horizontal stabilizer to the work bench top. All I need is something to just to gently hold the horizontal stabilizer down so it won't flip off the bench after the elevators are mounted. So I grabbed a piece of 3/8 inch plywood and put a 6 inch bolt through the middle of it and drilled a hole in the work bench top and put a nut on the underside. It's not tight at all, just enough to keep the the horizontal stabilizer from moving too much.

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