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Title: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: Chuckca on August 06, 2006, 11:58:03 AM
I want to get a couple....!  Does anyone know who sells them?  Thanks!
Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: JRR on August 06, 2006, 07:19:29 PM
I have bought "Wilton" clamps at WWGrainger.  Wonderful gadgets!
Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: Amanda_931 on August 06, 2006, 08:36:01 PM
Could be anything--even what the British call G-Cramps.  (which we'd call a pretty basic C-Clamp--the kind that the working by yourself book thinks are great for making a handle to carry stuff up a ladder.)

those plastic "ratcheting" clamps--sometimes made by Wilton--are pretty nice--hold boards on a platform or sawhorse, if it's made right so one person can cut them easily.   But I'd never call them C, G or even L.

Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: JRR on August 07, 2006, 09:06:46 PM
I like the "L-clamp".  I've noticed them on other folks' photo-posts, so they must have a following amongst us house-nuts.
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http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/itemDetailsRender.shtml?ItemId=1611580100
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The above doesn't give the "opening" dimension (duh!), the following does ... but no pictures:
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http://contractorstools.com/wilton.html#ecoserlclamps
Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: Chuckca on August 08, 2006, 07:15:43 AM
Sorry bout that!  I thought they were called Wilson Clamps.  Where in the world did get this? :)
Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: glenn kangiser on August 09, 2006, 09:47:12 PM
The Wilton clamp pictured by JRR is near exactly the same as Bessey "C" clamps available at welding shops such as Fresno Oxygen - again --not cheap.  

Note - don't try to hold a load on your pickup rack with them -- extended periods of vibration seem to loosen them and they fall off -- there goes the best part of $100. :(  Hmmm-- wonder who did that before?

(http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:tTZbubAp-zimnM:images.shopping.msn.com/img/6/2988/16/5429849.jpg)
Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: Amanda_931 on August 09, 2006, 10:07:19 PM
Couldn't have been any of us (that includes Glenn).  

We're all very very good at learning from other people's experience.

::)
Title: Re: Wilson "C" clamp
Post by: glenn kangiser on August 09, 2006, 11:19:05 PM
 :'(  Sorry Amanda.   :'(

I won't let it happen again. :'(