Clamp storage system

[Pappy]

I made the hangers for the 'Workbench' storage system last weekend and got them installed today. The pegboard is 38" wide, 48" high and now holds 44 clamps. The only thing not hanging on it are quick grip, spring, and pipe clamps.

[Brian G]

Nicely done. I need something better like that for my, umm, *cough* *cough*. . .well, let's just say I have a lot of clamps.

[Scottydont]

Looks great Pappy!

[ivwshane]

Home depot doesn't even have that many clamps

[gmack5]

WTG Pappy!
Looks great, good "packaging" job. []

[RodKirby]

Nice job Pappy, Warms my heart

[Jim Boyd]

quote:Originally posted by Knuckles

Nicely done. I need something better like that for my, umm, *cough* *cough*. . .well, let's just say I have a lot of clamps.

Same here. I'll have to build 3 or 4 of them. More with expansion
It does give me some good ideas!

[monte]

I need to do something like this. Mine are usually all over the shop. Thanks Pappy! Yours looks great!

[Pappy]

quote:Originally posted by RodKirby

Nice job Pappy, Warms my heart

From the owner of the cleanest, most organized shop in the world that is a high complement!

For anyone wanting to build these, the plans came from the April '04 issue. I made copies at the library. I also made some notes on the positioning of the mount hloes and support arm screw pilot holes for the F-body and aluminum bar clamp holders.Scetches on a chunl of ply right now. I will draw them up and post them here.

The box mounted lower right holds the corner pieces for bessie Vario band clamp.

[Ken Massingale]

Very nice Pappy. Now I have another project on the list.
Ken

[Ken Massingale]

Very nice Pappy. Now I have another project on the list.
Ken

[mater]

Good job Pappy. I need to build one of those and free up some space in my cabinets.

[Tundra_Man]

Good job! I'm going to join the others and state that I also need to build one.

[GPA61]

Excellent work Pappy. I just wish I had that many clamps to
put away.

[jbalders]

Nice work Pappy.. I might have to follow your lead and make something for my Bessey K-Bodies, and my really old 84" bar clamps.

Since we're talking finished clamp racks, I did this a few months ago to hold the multitude of my lightweight HF Pittsburg F-style clamps, as well as some others that I'd picked up off of ebay:



It was made with reclaimed knotty pine tongue-n-groove paneling from my basement. I gang-cut the notches using a dado blade and a step-n-repeat board (I'm sure there's a technical term for it, but it escapes me at the moment), assembled it with glue and my (then) new PC FN250 nailer, and sprayed poly on it with my HF turbine HVLP sprayer. I think there's 8 6", 8 12", 8 18", 8 24", 8 30", 4 36", 4 48" and two older 6" Irwins hanging on there.

There are two things I think I would have done differently. One is to make the slots slightly farther apart. It fits the clamps I got off of ebay pretty well, but I must have measuered the HF ones wrong, because it needs just a fraction of an inch more between clamps. They're currently 1" apart. I probably should have gone with 1-1/8" between the slots. The other thing is that I probably should have put a raised section on the top, near the front, so that the weight is resting on the raised section instead of on the pads. The 6" clamps don't sit in there too well. They want to rock back out of the goove because the weight is on the pad.

Jeff