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Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 21 Mar 2018, 13:54

My "Solo" clamps could hold the Queen Mary. IMMENSE pressure if you are goofy enough to exert it. I 'spread the love' with a packer much wider than their heads and have no problem with glue ups; they REALLY squeeze out glue and close seams. That said, their real boon is in clamping up sumat in the correct registraton one-handedly, while you hold two slippery wotsits in the right orientation. Thereafter, I get a few 'F' clamps distributed around a perimeter, or whatever is needed. Mine are approaching 10years old - and perhaps more - with no signs of slippage/wear unlike the absolute ashtray-on-a-motorbike ones with the serrations on one side..yuk.

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Doug » 21 Mar 2018, 20:28

If it works for you Sam that’s all that matters :)
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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 25 Mar 2018, 16:44

Exactly Doug. "It ain't what you got it's how you use it" ne c'est pas?

Congrats on the fine clamp rack that started this ponder off; consider it plagerised (in the nicest possible way, imitation/flattery don't you know?). I'm still convinced there IS a way to just 'drop' even a partially opened Solo clamp onto/into some kind of dedicated rack; Coley's one works for curly tailed ones, not all of mine are so. I just need to create the right conditions for cogitation and synthesis to see it in my mind's eye. Perhaps Rob Stoakley's 'Vino Collapso' approach will do it!

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Woodbloke » 27 Mar 2018, 12:16

SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:
Perhaps Rob Stoakley's 'Vino Collapso' approach will do it!

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Coley » 27 Mar 2018, 16:04

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They hang tuther way ok

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Malc2098 » 27 Mar 2018, 16:15

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 07 Jun 2018, 23:36

Thank you everyone; Coley gets the Mars Bar.

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Woodbloke » 08 Jun 2018, 18:05

MattS wrote:Maybe straying a bit off topic but general opinion those one handed clamps aren’t good for glue ups?

Generally no, they don't give enough pressure for gluing but are excellent for holding stuff when you lack an extra arm :D - Rob
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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Phil » 01 Jul 2018, 08:43

Another bright idea :idea:

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Coley » 01 Jul 2018, 08:46

That's completely different to solo clamps though

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Phil » 01 Jul 2018, 09:22

Coley wrote:That's completely different to solo clamps though

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Rod » 01 Jul 2018, 12:00

I’d keep walking into them

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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Andyp » 01 Jul 2018, 12:46

What happens when you want the one at the back?
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Re: Can YOU store 'Solo' clamps neatly?

Postby Phil » 02 Jul 2018, 07:05

Andyp wrote:What happens when you want the one at the back?



Easy. :D

You just a Sky-Hook number 20.5(b/h) and move them all across till you get the last one out.
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