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I was bending wood with a curling iron, and holding the curling iron and both ends of the wood was not working well. I made a wooden clamping collar to hold the handle of the curling iron in a vise, which was an improvement, but still not great. I noticed that this particular curling iron had a flat foot of some kind near the handle and a plastic cap at the end held on by a screw:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F5AG5E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8
I found a piece of square tubing with a right angle attachment at my favorite San Francisco model supply store-
http://www.scrap-sf.org/
And with a little hacksaw work soon had this-
Rock solid to clamp in the ChiCom panavise and a huge improvement in the bending ability. Any square tubing or block of wood would work as well. A layer of some thin thermal insulation at the end would probably help (in theory) to reduce heat loss into the added part, but the screw on the curling iron was too short to add anything and my very local hardware store burned down last month. It works fine without the insulating layer. I thought it was useful mod and almost mindlessly easy- your mileage may vary!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F5AG5E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8
I found a piece of square tubing with a right angle attachment at my favorite San Francisco model supply store-
http://www.scrap-sf.org/
And with a little hacksaw work soon had this-
Rock solid to clamp in the ChiCom panavise and a huge improvement in the bending ability. Any square tubing or block of wood would work as well. A layer of some thin thermal insulation at the end would probably help (in theory) to reduce heat loss into the added part, but the screw on the curling iron was too short to add anything and my very local hardware store burned down last month. It works fine without the insulating layer. I thought it was useful mod and almost mindlessly easy- your mileage may vary!