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Originally Posted by hwntime
Did you order that clamp online or was it from a hardware store? So 3.5" by 1/2"? Your rational seems legit so I might do this as a safety precaution.
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It's a Home Depot special. $2.50
I may end up ordering a nicer clamp.
I did make sure to not overtighten the clamp. People tend to overtorque band clamps. The bolt on the clamp is a 6 or 7 mm. That mean max torque is somewhere in the order of 3 to 5 ft/lbs. I tightened the clamp using a flat head screwdriver so that I couldn't overtorque it. I just wanted enough pressure to help offer support to the pipe lip without putting excessive pressure on it. It's rigid afterall and didn't want the clamp to create a pressure point and crack the lip.