On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 5:21:54 PM UTC-5, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:21:08 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 3:26:05 PM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
not just for pipe clamps

https://www.todayshomeowner.com/video/pipe-clamp-rack/

he puts end caps on the pipe to protect the threads from something

End caps are to prevent the pipes from sliding off the ends. End caps stick up about 1/8 to 1/4 inch.



but to me it is somehwat of a fail

over engineered and it is not made of wood

Over engineered to screw some flanges to the floor beams and screw some pipes into the flanges? Seems very simple and easy to me. All of your woodworking machines are made of metal. Are you a worthless loser of a woodworker because of it? The clamps aren't wood either. Metal clamps should be stored on metal pipes.


a few scraps and the same solution could be made

I don't like it because the clamps aren't easily available. They are up high. Hard to reach. And getting some of the inside ones is not easy. Do you have to remove all the outside ones to get the ones on the inside? Or monkey around and try to knock the one interior clamp up 6 inches to try to get it out? Just not as easy as having them all in a line leaning against a wall.

I dunno about him, but I can touch the overhead subfloor in my
basement while standing flatfooted, so this is a non-issue. And if
all the clamps stored on a given rack are the same, why do you need to
get the inner one first?

Lets pretend you have four each of 50", 40" and 24" Bessy clamps. Twelve clamps. You put in four or five of these pipes about one foot apart. The 50" clamps span the whole 5 pipe length. The 40" clamps span only 4 of the pipes. The 24" clamps span 3 of the pipes. To get the 50" or 40" clamps you will have to lift them out of the middle. Or as you say, put up separate pipes for each length of clamps. Probably a lot of people on this site have clamps of 6 feet all the way down to 1 foot. So you have six different sets of pipes on beams in the basement. Might run out of linear space for all the pipes since you cannot put different length clamps on the same set of pipes. I can touch the beam standing on my basement floor. Not the subfloor. Subfloor is almost 8 feet high in my basement. I live in the Midwest where we build basements a full height. 8 feet.