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Quick-Grip 00524 Bar Clamps | 
| Brand: Quick-Grip
Category: Home Improvement
Buy New: $27.99
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 101118
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 31.4 x 13.1 x 2
MPN: 524QCN
Model: 00524
UPC: 038548005249
EAN: 0038548005249
ASIN: B00002244P
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | 18" max. jaw opening, 3 1/4" throat depth | | • | Handle and jaws engineered for strength and lightweight | | • | High carbon, heat treated steel bar | | • | Soft, pliable pads protect fine finishes | | • | Lifetime warranty |
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Product Description
New and improved one-handed clamp delivers 300 lbs of sustained clamping force, an i-beam bar, and locking swivel jaw. Patented Locking Swivel Jaw. 3-1/2" Throat Depth. Removable Pads. Quick Change Screw. I-Beam Bar
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| Customer Reviews:
 These babies are sweet, use them all of the time February 25, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The big benefit to these is that you get true mobility out of them. While holding a piece of work, lined up, in one hand, you use these quick grips in the other hand to secure the work. If it slips while clamping, it is still a one handed tool to release it, and reclamp it again. Enables you to maintain a professional flow to your work. I feel awkward when using regular clamps in comparison. They require two hands. You could use a spring clamp to hold it together, then get another clamp to give it a final hold, but the quick grip saves you from having to do that.
Having these clamps in a few different sizes is beneficial as well. Small ones are more frequently used, and don't get in the way. The 33 1/2" is great when you need to hold larger projects together, and you can't effectively use two smaller ones to substitute. Additionally the macro clamps give you deeper jaws for a farther reach, enabling you to use them for securing work, to your radial arm saw table for example. They are fast enough to be used for almost any application. Sometimes I use them to secure work when sanding with a power sander. A couple squeezes and they are on, and one squeeze and they pop off.
After getting the smaller ones, and using them, I immediately order two of the 33 1/2" for larger projects, and for tie downs on equipment, including the drill press, and occasionally the radial arm saw.
Their is a small rubber stopper, which you can readily remove, in order to reverse the end, and make it a spreader as well. Something not needed very often, but difficult to achieve without one of these.
One note is that these have built in rubber pads, that completely cover the metal internal end. That is an advantage when you do not want to mar the wood. That and the fact that you can squeeze these with one hand, creates a mechanism that is easy to use, but not something that you would want to use for strength clamping. As a safety measure, these clamp sufficiently for most operations, but a threaded bar clamp, is stronger. So for those operations where extreme strength is needed, these are not the clamps to use. You sacrifice mountain holding strength for the ease of use. For example if I was using a large bit on the drill press, and drilling into metal, I would clamp it with something more. Even the slightest movement in an operation like that, could cause a snag, sending the piece into movement. If you are using just one of them, at the end of a 24" board, and decide to rout the other end, it will move on you. Securing it with two of them, and it is super tied down. You get my drift.
The big advantage of quick grip clamps, is that they handle wood beautifully, even for glue up operations. Hold workpieces more than securely to do the job in most applications, and are so handy that they deserve more than 5 stars. I would feel lost without them. It is another tool in the must have category.
 A good standard Clamp December 6, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As with the entire quick grip products the features that should entice you to buy and use the Quick-Grip 524 Bar Clamps are the ease of adjustment and the fact that it won't mar even the softest of wood yet still provide ample force for your project. People with low hand strength or hand pain can use the trigger ratchet used for the adjustment with ease. It only requires a firm squeeze just over the pressure used for scissors.
This is a great tool design. September 10, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
These clamps are the better mousetrap in today's woodworking. To a guy like me who works alone, and often needs an extra hand, these clamps are a blessing. Providing the means for one handed clamping is great and the non-marring faces NEVER leave marks on the wood. An added feature which I like is the fact that the design of these clamps will not allow you to put so much force onto them as to bend the bar (or mar the work piece). Although you won't pull any unruly hardwood glue joints together with these, they definitely have their place. The cost is high, but to do what they are designed to do, I wouldn't trade the ones I have for anything on the market.
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