Someone HAD to figure this out, sometime! Tom
>Subject:
Jorgensen Cabinet Masters - avoiding the stick?
>From: "js" [email protected]
>Date: 10/23/2003 9:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time
>Message-id: <[email protected]>
>
>All of the stories about these things sticking have me wondering. Why can't
>I just wrap a little tape around the bar, to prevent the clamps from sliding
>together? Means I'd never be able to close the clamp completely, but seems
>to me a half inch gap from "zero" is reasonable on a 48" clamp...
Someday, it'll all be over....
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:43:41 GMT, alexy <[email protected]>
wrote:
>PS, while I wrote the above to poke fun at the "serious design flaws"
>claim for something that may stick when mishandled,
Psssst. They aren't being mishandled when they stick. Unless you
somehow consider sliding the head down to the end to store it
"mishandling" it.
LRod
Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite
Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999
http://www.woodbutcher.net
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:04:38 GMT, "Leon"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"LRod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>
>> Psssst. They aren't being mishandled when they stick. Unless you
>> somehow consider sliding the head down to the end to store it
>> "mishandling" it.
>
>
>Psssst. You don't know what you are talking about... ROTFLMA
If it makes you feel better to think that, go ahead.
LRod
Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite
Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999
http://www.woodbutcher.net
jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote:
>/grump mode/
>If I am buying a bunch of Taiwanese clamps at a ww show (and I have many
>of these) for a modest price, I will apply tape, grommets, magnets,
>rubber bands, bits of glue, etc to fix a problem. I will even apply a
>belt sander or grinder to get them to slide all the way to the end. On
>the other hand, if I am paying good money for supposedly good product, I
> think that said product should be usable out of the box. /exit grump
>mode/.
> mahalo,
> jo4hn
As a public service, I will offer to dispose of any unusable products
you or anyone else may have received from the Woodcraft/Jorgensen
clamp sale. In fact, I will pay a modest handling and packaging charge
as well as actual shipping. Please contact me if you need help with
this disposal problem.
At you service.
Alex
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Alex
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alexy <[email protected]> wrote:
>Carrying on the theme of this thread, I found that we have some
>Waterford crystal subject to a similar serious design flaw -- it
>breaks when dropped on a hard surface. While I have pointed out that
>the plastic cups from McD's have been better engineered to remove this
>flaw, my wife still sees offsetting advantages to the Waterford. As a
>result, we just have to take special precautions to compensate for its
>design flaws.
PS, while I wrote the above to poke fun at the "serious design flaws"
claim for something that may stick when mishandled, I am not in any
other way making the CM-Waterford and K-McD analogies.
--
Alex
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In article <[email protected]>,
mttt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>>
>> /grump mode/
>
>You mean "<grump>" ? :)
>
actually, it's '<attitude mode="grump">' *snicker* <guffaw type="muffled">
"js" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> All of the stories about these things sticking have me wondering. Why
can't
> I just wrap a little tape around the bar, to prevent the clamps from
sliding
> together? Means I'd never be able to close the clamp completely, but
seems
> to me a half inch gap from "zero" is reasonable on a 48" clamp...
>
That will work, maybe even one of those rubber magnets similar to those
that are in the old refrigerator magnetic gaskets.. It would be nice to
pull the magnet off so that you could have the advantage of closing the
clamp further if necessary. The clamp is not likely to get stuck if you do
not let it slam shut or purposely close it all the way and crank down on the
handle.
"LRod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> Psssst. They aren't being mishandled when they stick. Unless you
> somehow consider sliding the head down to the end to store it
> "mishandling" it.
Psssst. You don't know what you are talking about... ROTFLMA
/grump mode/
If I am buying a bunch of Taiwanese clamps at a ww show (and I have many
of these) for a modest price, I will apply tape, grommets, magnets,
rubber bands, bits of glue, etc to fix a problem. I will even apply a
belt sander or grinder to get them to slide all the way to the end. On
the other hand, if I am paying good money for supposedly good product, I
think that said product should be usable out of the box. /exit grump
mode/.
mahalo,
jo4hn
js wrote:
> All of the stories about these things sticking have me wondering. Why can't
> I just wrap a little tape around the bar, to prevent the clamps from sliding
> together? Means I'd never be able to close the clamp completely, but seems
> to me a half inch gap from "zero" is reasonable on a 48" clamp...
>
>
Until you have used one you should not form an opinion... If you use this
as an excuse not to buy an American made clamp versus the German one, don't
even look at a Bosch Jigsaw until the new versions come out.
The clamp performs faultlessly unless you abuse it.
"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> /grump mode/
> If I am buying a bunch of Taiwanese clamps at a ww show (and I have many
> of these) for a modest price, I will apply tape, grommets, magnets,
> rubber bands, bits of glue, etc to fix a problem. I will even apply a
> belt sander or grinder to get them to slide all the way to the end. On
> the other hand, if I am paying good money for supposedly good product, I
> think that said product should be usable out of the box. /exit grump
> mode/.
> mahalo,
> jo4hn
>
> js wrote:
>
> > All of the stories about these things sticking have me wondering. Why
can't
> > I just wrap a little tape around the bar, to prevent the clamps from
sliding
> > together? Means I'd never be able to close the clamp completely, but
seems
> > to me a half inch gap from "zero" is reasonable on a 48" clamp...
> >
> >
>
"Erik Ahrens" <erikl_nospam_@_nospam_syserco.com> wrote:
>Having never owned one of these clamps I thought I'd take this opportunity
>to make a fool of my self.
>In reviewing pictures of the clamps, I see there is a screw device to
>tighten the clamp once placed. It is possable to just screw in the jaw a
>1/4" when not in use, then if the jaws slide together and stick just
>unloosen the threaded handle?
>
I tried to ask the same thing (though not as clearly as you did)
earlier, but got no response. Sure makes sense to me.
Carrying on the theme of this thread, I found that we have some
Waterford crystal subject to a similar serious design flaw -- it
breaks when dropped on a hard surface. While I have pointed out that
the plastic cups from McD's have been better engineered to remove this
flaw, my wife still sees offsetting advantages to the Waterford. As a
result, we just have to take special precautions to compensate for its
design flaws.
--
Alex
Make the obvious change in the return address to reply by email.
>
> Carrying on the theme of this thread, I found that we have some
> Waterford crystal subject to a similar serious design flaw -- it
> breaks when dropped on a hard surface. While I have pointed out that
> the plastic cups from McD's have been better engineered to remove this
> flaw,
ROTFLMAO.... That is absolutely correct analogy.
Having never owned one of these clamps I thought I'd take this opportunity
to make a fool of my self.
In reviewing pictures of the clamps, I see there is a screw device to
tighten the clamp once placed. It is possable to just screw in the jaw a
1/4" when not in use, then if the jaws slide together and stick just
unloosen the threaded handle?
Erik
"js" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> All of the stories about these things sticking have me wondering. Why
can't
> I just wrap a little tape around the bar, to prevent the clamps from
sliding
> together? Means I'd never be able to close the clamp completely, but
seems
> to me a half inch gap from "zero" is reasonable on a 48" clamp...
>
>
"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
> /grump mode/
You mean "<grump>" ? :)
> the other hand, if I am paying good money for supposedly good product, I
> think that said product should be usable out of the box.
Agreed. But I own them now... :)
> /exit grump mode/.
You mean "</grump>" ?