Storing Clamps

[Greg O]

I wish my daughter was still interested in hanging out in the shop with me. When she was 1-1/2 to about 8 years old she was in the shop with me all the time. give her a few sticks of scrap, a hammer and a box of nails and she was busy making things for hours! She really wants a computer desk and a book shelf. I have hinted that she could help me build them and I get this "look" that only a teen ager can give!

One time when she was two years old she wandered into the shop. I had an old furance blower running, melting ice of the car. Of course the blower had an exposed drive belt. She looked it over, and seemed pretty mesmerized by it. So before she went any farther I dropped an old shop rag into the belt. The rag spun around one pulley a few times, then a few trips around the other, before it escaped and flew into the air. It could not have come out better. As she was standing there with wide eyes over the specticle. I asked her what would happen if that rag was her finger! Her eyes got bigger yet and she thrust her hands into her pockets and took a step back from the blower! Never had to worry about fingers getting where they did not belong! Greg

[Bridger]

Absolutely.

My assistant right now has a habit of setting the screws all of the way open. too far, such that when you slip it into place and push the jaw up to the wood you don't have any room on the thread to back off a tad so's you can shift the clamp a bit before driving it home. then you gotta take the clamp back off, twiddle the screw a bit, try again.

Gotta break her of that habit.

I'm getting closer to having a plan for a roll around clamp rack. I'm thinking it will have vertical storage for bar clamps, maybe a couple of drawers for C clamps, a shelf for glue and another drawer for biscuits and dowels. and somewhere to keep spring clamps.

; ^ )

Bridger

[Doug Winterburn]

lamps hung at an angle, rather than hanging vertically.

I have one based on a Woodsmith article - love it. Holds pipe clamps, bar clamps, C-clamps, scissors clamps, glue, bins for screws/nails/anything else. Only has a footprint of 20" x 36" and 5.5' tall.

-Doug

[Bridger]

yeah I guess so....

just dig the floor down another 6 inches ; ^ ) Bridger

[Bridger]

post a picture?

[Eric Ryder]

That's what I ended up doing after sprinting around the shop during glueups to get ....just one more! A also made a home for the sanders and paper so assembly/finishing is nonaerobic now.

[Larry Jaques]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:52:20 -0700, "Creamy Goodness" brought forth from the murky depths:

Right, education followed by bandaids is the best teaching system.

Probably not, but why chance it? I'm going to be building a rolling clamp tree RSN. I have one cabinet half made and need to get tools off the shelves, out of boxes, and into a usable system. The side-of-the-rolling-assembly-cart storage I created ain't woikin'. A tree they could pull down onto themselves and do real damage, but a single clamp would be easy enough to semi- escape for a quick little kid. Damn, remember when WE had reflexes like that?

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[Ron Magen]

'Tommy Boy', Nice looking 'shop' photos . . . what's with the 'waterfall/dam' ? . . . the view out your back window. You know, nobody *really* likes a Show Off.

How about a more recent shot . . . like late this afternoon when the temperature drops to about ZERO !!

Regards, Ron Magen Backyard Boatshop {"Now where was that address for the DN Iceboat plans ??"}

[Tom Watson]

Yeah, shop is next to the stream, a little downstream from the dam. Unfortunately, the stream was redirected by the big storm this summer and breached the wingwall, so the dam/waterfall is dry and silent. The township is gonna put the stream back in its original channel this Spring.

Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker (ret) Real Email is: tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet Website:

[Creamy Goodness]

Yes please. Tom's looks great, but a little too big for my workshop. BTW - Tom, got plans for the waterfall? ;)

BTW - Creamy Goodness, the name I post under, is my on-line gaming name. My other hobby is computer games and I've been using that for years as my tag. I post in a few game-related NG's so I'm lazy about changing it when I post here. (Someone asked?)

Mike Rinken

[Phisherman]

Not sure. But it is actually better to store clamps not under pressure as that makes it easier to use. I have a storage clamp area where my bar clamps, C clamps, K-Body, pipe clamps, Quick clamps, Jorgensen bar clamps, spring clamps, web clamps, etc are all stored where I can get to quickly. I put turnbuckles on the long clamps to keep them from falling, but they are still slanted up against the wall.

[Brian Henderson]

All of my spring clamps are hung on an old curtain rod that was installed over one of the windows in my shop. They're always available but out of the way and can easily be sorted by size.

My bar clamps ended up being hooked over a long dowel hung between two joists along the short wall by the door. Again, simple to sort and get to, yet out of the way.

[Doug Winterburn]

I'll do a couple in the morning on abpw.

-Doug