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  • Clamp

    35 85.37%

  • Cramp

    2 4.88%

  • use both terms interchangeably

    4 9.76%
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Thread: Cramp or Clamp

  1. 27th December 2006, 10:52 PM #1
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    Cool Cramp or Clamp

    simple really . voice your opinion online .

    No discussion , it has already been covered since 2004 unless you want to discuss how handsome Charlie is ( he gets it from his Dad of course )
    He is walking now and saying Daddy .
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  3. 27th December 2006, 11:05 PM #2
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    A clamp is good for gripping, a cramp is cause for griping!
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

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  4. 28th December 2006, 12:33 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!! View Post
    A clamp is good for gripping, a cramp is cause for griping!
    A grip is good for either...
    If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!

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  5. 28th December 2006, 12:37 AM #4
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    Rick,
    you need a "I use both terms interchangeably" option (I don't, but some might)

    Mick
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    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

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  6. 28th December 2006, 03:47 PM #5
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    You're right Mick but I dont know how now and its simple this way anyway . Looks like clamp is easily the prefered term .
    uhm , where am I ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by journeyman Mick View Post
    Rick,
    you need a "I use both terms interchangeably" option (I don't, but some might)

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick_rine View Post
    You're right Mick but I dont know how now and its simple this way anyway . Looks like clamp is easily the prefered term .
    Done.
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  8. 28th December 2006, 05:09 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!! View Post
    A clamp is good for gripping, a cramp is cause for griping!
    Quote Originally Posted by Shedhand View Post
    A grip is good for either...
    I go with clamp, but it sounds painful either way
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  9. 8th January 2007, 12:32 AM #8
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    Well there you go.
    Any thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
    Most powertools have sharp teeth.
    People are made of meat.
    Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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    Cramped in a clamp.
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  11. 14th January 2007, 09:28 AM #10
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    Gripped in a gripe!
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    Ping - time to get this going again

    John A Walton (who wrote the textbook on woodwork used in NSW when I was at school, Woodwork in Theory and Practice) calls the things 'cramps' (p8) and he then used the verb 'clamp'.

    John Sainsbury in Planecraft, refers frequently to 'C clamps (G cramps)'.

    So it would seem that the usage is not so perverse as some have indicated when they refer to books, suggesting that it is not often used there.
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  13. 28th March 2007, 01:58 PM #12
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    G'day,

    On my recent visit to Brisbane to collect the remaining tools from my Dad's estate I got this clamp. Initially it was rusty as, then with a dip in citric acid I found a really beaut find and that it wasn't a clamp, but a cramp.

    You may or may not be able to read all the detail on the body of the cramp, but it reads, "The Maun Carpenters Cramp, made in England by Maun Industries LTD. No. 269/.

    The inscription above is very nicely etched. Definitely a keeper and user.

    Size: 120x380

    So, is cramp the original term and the Yanks got lazy and decided they'd be different and call them clamps, and like most things we've adopted their terms?
    I make things, I just take a long time.

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  14. 28th March 2007, 03:55 PM #13
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    OHUCH! I have a terrible Cramp in my hand from tightening so many Clamps.... Onry Japinese pipple gets Clamps in their lists from doing up too many Cramps!
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