"dpb" wrote in message
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Tom Veatch wrote:
After battling with a panel glue-up for way too long this afternoon,
I've decided to mortgage my firstborn and get some parallel jaw
clamps. There's several different brands, and I'm asking you guys what
kind you have, and what you wish might be a little different about
them.


They're all so over-priced imo I've never bought anything except pipe
clamps for heavy work and the lite-weight bar clamps for anything else
that doesn't need either the reach or the length...

If I were ever in a real production environment, perhaps; but I'm thinking
I'd still just fabricate a somewhat better version of the t-bar version
rather than spend what appears to me to be obscene amounts for commercial
clamps...

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It's amazing how a *simple* project can make you feel like you've a
production environment going. If you call the price obscene, then I have an
obscene number of besseys (18), and I can't count how many times I've had
them all in use at the same time. I wouldn't trade them for anything, and
consider the money well spent.