Thread: Can you save crummy clamps?

Originally Posted by pmcgee

I put great thought into it ... and use a pine scrap between ... which made a ball-shaped depression in it, instead of the job.
Paul

That's what I do too.

Originally Posted by jimbur

That's what I do too.

Me too. I have a collection of offcuts of varying widths (2 x 1 mainly) that hang on my clamp rack for that purpose.

I am wondering if one can really trust Irwin products in the light in the light of their last online promotion.
Remember the tools for Tradesmen of Australia , and America, and England, ad nauseum.?

The online video promotion showed the "Tradesmen" using vice grips and Stilsens on machined surfaces and bolts and nuts.


The point being that if the accountants don't understand how tools are used , how then could they then understand how they are made.

Answer,they don't and do not care about the customer.
The organization is run to make money.The employees who did have a care about the tool/s quality no longer have a say or are are long gone .

Vice grips and Lenox are just two of the well respected trade names that this mob have demolished in the name of the holy dollar in my opinion.

The pin through the hole ALA sash cramp may be your only option.


Buy up all the old brand tools while you can.

Grahame