Clamp storage - let's see your ideas, pics please.

[ALinCarolina]

 

[no704]

Nice table! Had a couple of those at a previous employer.

 

[63f100eba]

section of hog panel (4 inch grid, welded wire) suspended at an angle.

 

[Gutman]

section of hog panel (4 inch grid, welded wire) suspended at an angle.

I'm looking to improve my storage and reduce its footprint. Your solution looks pretty good.

Because of the perspective, it's hard to see how you've captured the angle grinders. Is there a notch in the frame or are they just hanging from the lip of the guard on the handles?

 

[flippin]

Like many others, my clamps are used primarily for metal fab. Stole the idea from the GJ braintrust of storing them on my welding rack.

 

[ALinCarolina]

For grinders I added some brackets onto the sides of a HF cart.

 

[metalmagpie]

My shop is geared more towards metalworking than woodworking. Anyway, a guy asked me to haul this partial frame away. I looked at it and realized it would make a pretty good rack for clamps and angle grinders. This is a very old picture. Most everything in my shop looks different now, but I still use that rack.

 

[Beerhippie]

That's my drill press cart, but the welders are right next door.

I'm not as clamp-wealthy as some of you. I've added enough to fill the rack since the picture. Longer bar clamps hang on exposed shop plumbing.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

No pics at the moment, but my clamp "storage" is just the front edge of a long shelf where I store all my bins of wood glue, screws, etc.

 

[4 FN 27]

Some random pics of Weldng Bench and Clamp Storage.

.100 thk Aluminum Peg Board Sheet. .28125 dia Holes on 1 inch centers to use 1/4 heavy duty Peg Hooks.

 

[545_days]

My bar clamps are closed and hung by their handles over the short end bars of a Harbor Freight rolling scaffold that I have pushed up against a wall. Vise Grip style clamps are clamped against the long beam on the front of the scaffold.

 

[Jgaz]

A few more of mine





Modified HF clamps used at the woodworking bench stored at the end of the bench

 

[Mike65]

I built 3 racks one for the pipe clamps one for the spring clamps & one for the bar clamps. My C clamps are in a bucket for now.

 

[BTL-A4]

Here's my clamp storage. I don't have room on any walls for the usual clamp racks. I do have room in a cabinet above my workbench. I'm tall enough to reach them.

These were hanging on the contraption you see at the right (square board with clamps hanging free), but they would fall on me whenever I went to grab one. This is dangerous, so I redid them with the racks on the left.


I needed to leave room to grab the clamps in the back of the rack, so there's lots of space between the racks. I bolted them into the studs (with bolts I had on hand-overkill, but it saved me a trip to the store) and used Strong-tie "L" brackets to hold the clamp supports. I dadoed them with 1/4" wide slots for all the clamps.


This is how I store the smaller ones. I use an aluminum "L" channel bolted to the door. The clamps are clamped to it.


I arranged the racks so I still had room in the cupboard to store stuff and get all the stuff on the left out.


I could have made the brackets longer to hold more clamps, but I needed room for the ones on the inside of the door. I can add to the middle row if I get more clamps.
I used scrap plywood and hardware I had on hand.

I hope this provides some reference/ideas for anyone else!