Reply by Fuzzy

I don’t have a picture handy, but I did something just like WAHO6O9’s with one small difference. I cut a 1/4” wide notch through the half-round pieces in such a way as to eliminate the clamp and use a simple 1/4”-20 bolt/washers/wingnut to pull the joint together.

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