How do you store C-clamps

[GaryRoushkolb]

I'm looking for suggestions to store c-clamps rather than the "milk crates" that I am using now. I'ts a pain to dig for them and I'd like to just reach them down from a rack. What's the best way to hang them?

[Canadian Charlie]

I have mine ready to use mounted on my compressor stand, I only have around 6 C clamps but when I need them they are there

[Major Ramifications]

My dad used a length of pipe, with short elbows, nipples & flanges to bring it out away from the wall. Sort of like a towel bar. It works OK. I just keep mine in two shallow drawers in my workbench, and I was just thinking this morning that I need to do something with them.

[Brandon_Lutz]

We have an old rolling tool box with some big handles on the sides. We hang our C-Clamps on that. Being as the box is right next to our work table, that keeps the clamps always at hand.

[jimvannoy]

I hang mine on peg board behind one of my benches.

[jim m]

mine are hung on dowel rods srewed to the legs of one end of my bench I allso use this idea for rolls of tape old oak towel bars from bathroom redo




Jim

[Jononon]

The best way is probably what we had at college, a tool shadowed peg board, with a set on each peg, arranged by size.

However, my stainless towel rail, £3 from the dinged and scratched aisle at IKEA, works great :)

[Uncle Buck]

I have mine ready to use mounted on my compressor stand, I only have around 6 C clamps but when I need them they are there

Your way is close to the way I store all my clamps larger than 5".

[sethbriancollins]

i used to have a 2' long 1x4 screwed to a pair of square 2x4 bits that were attached to the wall
the non handle side of the c clamp would slip over the top of the 1x4 and the close tolerance between the wall and the board would keep it in place

they were all there within reach and already opened enough to never have to go to far to get it to clamp where i want it to

[MarkH]

This works for both C and handscrew clamps. Cut a length of wood of the appropriate size, attach a small piece of flat iron to it (we screw them on) that is longer than the woods thickness so it sticks out enough to drill a second hole through it to attach to the wall. For handscrews if we used a 1X3 the one by 1X3 is vertical so the clamps hang with the screws horizontal and the nose facing down, for C clamps horizontal so they attach like a shelf. Large C Clamps may use a board mounted with 2 screws and 2 more to hold it to the wall. For Pony type clamps use a dowel or a piece of stair railing. Cheap, simple to make and can hold 4-8 large handscrews up to 7-10 Small pony or middle size C-Clamps. Pipe and Bar clamps are hung off something that looks like an oversized towel rack.

We have them sorted by size this way so it is easy to grap one.

[mulepackin]

I have a 2x2 screwed down the middle of a same length 2x4, this is screwed to my lumber rack. All my clamps either hang from this or are lightly clamped to this "cleat".