what type of clamp is this?

[Cheeky]

does anybody know what type of vise this is?




or do you know of any others that pipe can fit/thread into?

i would like to make my own bike repair stand, and this clamp looks ok for one-handed op.

a friend of mine asked me to tune up her, and her girlfriend's bikes, and now by word of mouth, i have a boat load of people asking me to do the same. i used to work in a shop, but even with my discount a good stand is still over $100.

[Uncle Cracker]

Looks like your typical pipe clamp, except that it looks like some add-on rubber jaws have been bolted on to prevent marring. Typically, these clamps will fit either 1/2" or 3/4" steel or iron pipe, of whatever length is required. Some are threaded on the screw end, and most use a set screw on the sliding end.

Here's some links, some cheap, some not:

http://www.harborfreightusa.com/usa/...bCategoryName=
http://woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5099
http://www.jamesmorton.com/products/...ringClamps.php

They've got 'em in HD and Lowes as well.

[LCHIEN]

Looks like your typical pipe clamp, except that it looks like some add-on rubber jaws have been bolted on to prevent marring. Typically, these clamps will fit either 1/2" or 3/4" steel or iron pipe, of whatever length is required. Some are threaded on the screw end, and most use a set screw on the sliding end.

Here's some links, some cheap, some not:

http://www.harborfreightusa.com/usa/...bCategoryName=
http://woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5099
http://www.jamesmorton.com/products/...ringClamps.php

They've got 'em in HD and Lowes as well.

agree with UC. Rockler sells them as well.
Most of the time they clamp to the vertical tube but not the seatpost, I think. You want to be able to rotate as well as be able to clamp to different sized tubes.

you can probably make some clamp pads from softer woods, non-marring. Drill a hole through it large enough for the tube and then cut it in half.

[jon_ramp]

agree with UC. Rockler sells them as well.
Most of the time they clamp to the vertical tube but not the seatpost, I think.

Unless you foresee working on a bike with a carbon fiber frame, then the seat post would be preferred. Sometimes the middle of the metal tubing can be quite thin walled and butted on the ends, so you'll want to clamp at the end of a tube rather than the middle if the seat post is not an option.

[JR]

you can probably make some clamp pads from softer woods, non-marring. Drill a hole through it large enough for the tube and then cut it in half.

Good idea, but I'd probably want to add some rubber or something similar to the inner faces. There are a number of seat post diameters on bikes these days, so having a litte "give" would be good idea.

This is a cool setup. I'd think that it would be a good idea to have some sort of adjustment allowing the bike to rotate up/down. Thinking out loud now, if the horizontal pipe ran through a sleeve of some kind, you could use a knob with threaded shaft like you might see in t-track accessories to hold it in place.

JR