Clamp Racks

[Chris Padilla]

Chris, does that MM20 suck so much juice that you can't even turn the lights on anymore? BTW, what size wire & breaker did you have to use on that monster?

I picked up some waterproof soft 10/3 cord from the borg ($$$s, $1.39/ft.) and have it connected to a 30 A 2-pole breaker. The motor is 4.2 HP (240 V) so this should work out just fine.

I just had the lights turned down and figured the pic was good enough!

[Pete Harbin]

We're traveling today, so no access to pics of the shop. Mine are very simlar to Jim's. I like to hang that clamps so that they're open and ready to go. I've pinched a few fingers over the years when I used to hang the bessey's in the closed position.

The shop is still in transition...we've only been on the new house a year now! I'm using any available wall space right now, but that's got the collection spread out all over. Still working on the total layout...

My problem is that I have more 40" and 50" Besseys than I need...remember the HD and Lowes blitz a few years back? I think I paid about $18-$19 average per clamp. I'd almost trade them straight up for more 24's...almost...

Pete

[Walt Nicholson]

Here is one I built a while back that has really been handy in the shop.
http://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.p...ght=clamp+rack

[glenn bradley]

I have cleats down the walls so I went modular. Things have been rearranged quite a few times. They've ended up back almost where they started but will move again on the next project I imagine.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...8&d=1212197584

[Glenn Clabo]

Here's mine...simple...and it continues to work just fine even with twice the clamps.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...8&d=1105117430

[glenn bradley]

Here's mine...simple...and it continues to work just fine even with twice the clamps.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...8&d=1105117430

Ahhh, no earthquakes in your neck-o-the-woods I'll wager .

[Ben Martin]

Well, not to raise the dead here, but instead of posting my own thread I thought that I could keep this one going...

I built my clamp storage rack tonight, took all of 30 minutes, actually took longer to put the clamps on the rack then it did to build the thing. I was originally using the exposed I beams in my basement shop for a rack but this proved a little un-safe so I decided to exploit the exposed joists in my basement shop in the corner by my drill press.

All this is is a piece of 3/4" ply wood screwed to the bottom of my joists with 1 5/8" drywall screws at 6" intervals (which my structural engineer wife asked why there were so many screws...)

This shows the over all view:



This shows it from the end:



And here are some pics from underneath showing the 75+ F-Clamps and 25+ Parallel Clamps on it:

[Mike Heidrick]

A few pics of mine. JLT panel rack and the shopnotes racks. Second pic is from JLT's site showing it with clamps in use. I have about doubled the Jorgy numberss since this picture - found a deal on 18 more of them in one fell swoop buy when a localish guy was moving. I have since moved the F-bar clamps to another rack also from shopnotes.

[Mike Cruz]

Wow, this thread seems more like a peeing contest than a help/aid!

Well, here's what I did. It is for all of my F style bar clamps 6" to 36", parallel clamps, and spring clams. The 4 foot heavy bar clamps are going on the wall.

[Cory Hoehn]

Here's my small and simple clamp collection. I don't have a lot of wall space, so i had to go out off of the wall. I've got the slots sized so that I can store any of my clamps. On this rack, which is about 24" wide, I've got 4 Jorgy's, 4 pipe clamps, 2 quick grips, and 8 f-style clamps. I've got another small rack that holds more f-style and quick grips near my work bench.

[Jason White]

Here's my solution in a post from last week...

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=127054

Have you ever noticed that there seem to be about as many different clamp rack designs as there are wood workers? I remember spending hours scouring woodworking websites, looking for ideas, before I built my clamp rack. I had an idea, if everyone could post pictures of their clamp rack design with a description, into the same post, it could make the search much easier for other woodworkers that are building their first rack and potentially save some trial & error.
So, what do you think? Post or repost your clamp rack pictures into this thread for posterity.

I’ll kick things off with a repost of my, ahem, Rube Goldburg clamp rack…

“Where do you store a bunch of bar clamps in a 2-car garage shop when your wall & floor space is limited?
I have been pondering that question for sometime so a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make a decent rack for all my Bessey & Quick-Grips and hang it above an unused garage door.
I started by having a friend of mine who owns a machine shop order me a piece of 4”x 6”x 3/8” 6061 aluminum angle, 8’ long. Next, I drilled a .250 hole in each of my Bessey clamps for a roll pin - the Quick-Grips already have a pin. I also drilled a hole in the 4 Gross-Stabil bar clamps that my dad bought back in the 50’s. Next, I milled 52 slots of varying widths & depths through the angle. Using a ball end-mill, I also milled a keeper slot to capture the roll pin. It took about 8 hours and a few Millers, but I now have a decent clamp rack with plenty of open slots for future Christmas presents.”

[Mike Heidrick]

Wow, this thread seems more like a peeing contest than a help/aid!

Well now that the clamp cart peeing target is here .....

BTW - if you need the shopnotes number for the wall design I copied I will search it out.

[jack duren]

A couple... Some when I can get to them and we use two wheel clamp at work similar to these...

[Jim Becker]

I looked at my previous submission to this old thread and had a chuckle...it was clearly before I bought my MM16. This is the clamp rack today:

[jack duren]

Only thing I get confused on is the amount of wall space consumed by efforts to showcase clamps. There not displayed at the store this way so why display them in the shop?