Clamps

Ted in NE-OH · Jun 17, 2017

I would like to see pictures of how you store your "C" clamps. I have a lot of C clamps from small to big. I hang them on nails on the wall but they bend the nails and fall off.

RayP(MI) · Jun 17, 2017

Clamp them to the 2x4 frame member across front of workbench.

greenmech · Jun 17, 2017

Make a steel bracket and space it out 3" from the wall. Maybe 2"x 1/4 flat stock. Ron Mn

TimV · Jun 17, 2017

Clamps are one of those things it seems you're always one short, or the one you have needs to be a quarter inch bigger! I hang smaller ones on pegboard hooks, and larger ones on nails--LARGE nails--60D spikes or similar--often drove into a scrap 2x4 that's long enough to span 2 or 3 studs to give more support. Another way for hanging clamps is that like most people that dabble with welding, I've got lots of old rod lying around, which gives me a great source of 1/8" (and of course other diameters, but 1/8" is probably the most common) round rods, which I bend into hooks and hang stuff, including clamps, from those.

kcm.MN · Jun 17, 2017

(quoted from post at 18:18:59 06/17/17) I would like to see pictures of how you store your "C" clamps.

No, you wouldn't! :lol: Years ago, when I had a "real" shop, I had a place for everything. Now.....never mind.

Janicholson · Jun 17, 2017

I took a 1X6 pine board and screwed it to the rafters with spacers to make it about 6 inches down from the ceiling. I clamp wood "Jorgenson" and sliding quick clamps and C-clamps to it. On the end of our welding bench at SCSU we use a 1/2" rebar along one end to hang the C-clamps on. Jim

Stephen Newell · Jun 17, 2017

I screwed a piece of pipe across between the two legs on the end of my work bench to hang C clamps and spring clamps on.

PaGlenn · Jun 17, 2017

Clamp them unto the horizontal 2x4 on the wall of polebarn.

stonerock · Jun 18, 2017

hang on pipe under welding table

dr sportster · Jun 18, 2017

I ordered aluminum strips off eBay and bolted them to the side of the garage door supports . All clamps get clamped down to those strips.

Ron in NS · Jun 18, 2017

the least empty space on the workbench. I haven't found the top of it in years.

Determined · Jun 18, 2017

You need some real nails, 6 - 7 inch spikes a couple of inches into a stud.
I hang 100 foot air hoses, tire chains, jack stands etc this way.

VADAVE · Jun 18, 2017

Shoot that's easy. Does you work bench have wooden legs? maybe 4X4 but 2X4 work.
You could even build a rack out of 2X4's with multiple levels. Cut 1/2 inch galvanized pipe the length of the uprights on the rack or the distance between the front and back legs of the bench. Then drill holes the pipe will fit through and your done. The "c" clamps hang on the pipe. If the clamps are screw type make a double hook from clothes hangers and hang em that way.

gtractorfan · Jun 18, 2017

Here's some of mine.

Duner Wi · Jun 18, 2017

Mine go in 2 - 5 gal buckets.
Too many clamps and not enough room.
Just added 2 more yesterday , Williams 403 and 403S.

Cory Schmidt · Jun 18, 2017

Our welding bench has a piece of flat steel on the end that the clamps hang over...at work I clamped a piece of 1x1x 1/4 angle iron on a safety barricade so the iron sticks out over a small table, the large clamps (and a couple small) hang on that, small ones go mainly in a bin.

Noah W · Jun 18, 2017

(quoted from post at 21:18:59 06/17/17) I hang them on nails on the wall but they bend the nails and fall off.

Use bigger nails?

I have a window in my shop that is basically unusable. I put enough 2x4 welded wire fencing to cover the window. It makes a good hanger for all my C clamps plus a myriad of other tools. No reason you could not do that with a couple of 2x4 studs with the wire fixed to the 2in. side(as big as you want) and use it to hang all kinds of stuff from.

Noah W

Ted in NE-OH · Jun 18, 2017

Thanks

Clamps

Ted in NE-OH

Well-known Member

RayP(MI)

Well-known Member

greenmech

Well-known Member

TimV

Well-known Member

kcm.MN

Well-known Member

Janicholson

Well-known Member

Stephen Newell

Well-known Member

PaGlenn

Well-known Member

stonerock

Member

dr sportster

Well-known Member

Ron in NS

Well-known Member

Determined

Well-known Member

VADAVE

Well-known Member

gtractorfan

Well-known Member

Duner Wi

Well-known Member

Cory Schmidt

Well-known Member

Noah W

Member

Ted in NE-OH

Well-known Member

Similar threads