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Finds: A Christmas Tree Stand Based on Locking Pliers

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

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This totally looks like something we’d cook up in the shop a week before Christmas when we’re under massive pressure from the family to put the tree up because we’ve been, um, busy with something or the other and haven’t yet gotten around to it. 

We found this when we were poking around Grip-on’s (incredibly infuriating totally Flash-based) website looking at their clamps.  Besides trying (in vain, we believe) to ride Snap-on’s coattails with their “Trademark infringement?  Who me?” name, Grip-on’s strategy seems to be develop and sell anything we can think of and do with locking pliers.

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Finds: Grip-on’s Multiple Grip Holder

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

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Here’s an idea we wish we’d thought of:  It’s a simple device that slips over a 5″, 7″, or 10″ locking tool — read Vise Grip or similar — and turns it into a handy vise.  It’s essentially a C-clamp (with a standard swivel pad and butterfly screw) with a holder for the locking tool.  Clamp it to your workbench (or whatever), insert the pliers, and you’re ready to go.

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Finds: Micro Clamp 2000

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

 

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At one time or another we have all managed to find ourselves in the middle of a project with a clamping nightmare that requires logic of epic proportions to solve.  Either the clamp is too big, the angle is too great, or the space is just too small to work with. 

Now here comes Grip-on Tools going big with “the world’s smallest locking tool” called the Micro Grip.  At 3.6 inches the Micro Grips’ advantages are immediately clear:  It fits into places other clamps can’t go.  But the real advantage is the straight line motion of its mobile jaw.

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