SS bar clamps

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SS bar clamps

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I dont doubt these are a good product, SS stuff usually is. Has anyone here have them? Are you happy/impressed with them?
I will need to call them to see what the minimum width for each one is since they dont mention that in there info.
Thanks in advance.
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What clamps are you referring to?
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Sorry, just edited that, the bar clamps
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Here's a link.
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... blebar.htm
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Wow Bruce, the same as I got via email from SS and there product line. That is not what I asked, read it all already, and read my thread ?. :rolleyes: :cool:
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ERLover wrote:I dont doubt these are a good product, SS stuff usually is. Has anyone here have them? Are you happy/impressed with them?
I will need to call them to see what the minimum width for each one is since they dont mention that in there info.
Thanks in advance.
The minimum width is listed in the line with the prices. :cool:

555162 24" Double Bar Clamp (10" Minimum Width) ... Regularly: $57.84 Sale Price: $49.16

555163 36" Double Bar Clamp (16" Minimum Width) ... Regularly: $69.39 Sale Price: $58.98

555164 48" Double Bar Clamp (22" Minimum Width) ... Regularly: $77.19 Sale Price: $65.61
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555162 24" Double Bar Clamp
Regularly: $57.84 Email Special: $49.16 -- You Save $8.68

555163 36" Double Bar Clamp
Regularly: $69.39 Email Special: $58.98 -- You Save $10.41

555164 48" Double Bar Clamp
Regularly: $77.19 Email Special: $65.61 -- You Save $11.58
So where? Reading comprehension skills have been lacking in this country for decades!!!!
My question?
I will need to call them to see what the minimum width for each one is since they dont mention that in there info.
NOT THE MAXIMUM!!!! :(
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I have three of the 36" clamps. They worked great on the handful of panels that I've glued up with them. The panels came out very true. The final result is probably the same, but I think it's less work and fuss than putting in biscuits for alignment, and then using lots of alternating bar or pipe clamps.

I've also used them on panels that are narrower than the "minimum". I just add one or more spacer boards of the same thickness as the panel boards, and don't glue them. Or if fortune is smiling on you, you can glue up two narrower panels at the same time.
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rpd wrote:
ERLover wrote:I dont doubt these are a good product, SS stuff usually is. Has anyone here have them? Are you happy/impressed with them?
I will need to call them to see what the minimum width for each one is since they dont mention that in there info.
Thanks in advance.
The minimum width is listed in the line with the prices. :cool:

555162 24" Double Bar Clamp (10" Minimum Width) ... Regularly: $57.84 Sale Price: $49.16

555163 36" Double Bar Clamp (16" Minimum Width) ... Regularly: $69.39 Sale Price: $58.98

555164 48" Double Bar Clamp (22" Minimum Width) ... Regularly: $77.19 Sale Price: $65.61
Does the RED highlighting help your Reading comprehension skills?
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ERLover wrote:555162 24" Double Bar Clamp
Regularly: $57.84 Email Special: $49.16 -- You Save $8.68

555163 36" Double Bar Clamp
Regularly: $69.39 Email Special: $58.98 -- You Save $10.41

555164 48" Double Bar Clamp
Regularly: $77.19 Email Special: $65.61 -- You Save $11.58
So where? Reading comprehension skills have been lacking in this country for decades!!!!
My question?
I will need to call them to see what the minimum width for each one is since they dont mention that in there info.
NOT THE MAXIMUM!!!! :(
Follow the link that RPD so kindly provided. Look in the table that gives the prices for individual clamps -- NOT sets of three clamps -- and you will see the "minimum" widths given. Just like RPD said.
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