Clamps Reviews

I was very dissappointed with this item. Didn't last a day. The Streamlight Adjust-a-Clamp is VASTLY superior. Stainless steel construction and it's CHEAPER too. My current Streamlight set has been in heavy constant use in my truck for over 15 years. The rubber has worn off a few times but it STILL HOLDS MY FLASHLIGHT! Customers who were unhappy with the MAG instrument product should check out the Streamlight clamps.

These are the best...still breakable with normal wear and tear, but not too expensive to replace.

This is a great addition to the Maglight flashlight, you can mount it in your car & always have your flashlight handy. The overall construction quality is good but will break if not used with some degree of care. I have had (1) clip break out of 4 pairs in three years. I highly recommend these mounting clips for convenience & just wish they were made a little bit more heavy duty.

I've been using an Accu-miter for over ten years. Once properly adjusted I can consistently cross cut to lenth using the built in scales. For this use it is much more accurate than measuring and marking the board. This covers almost all of my use and it is fine for this purpose. It has been dropped and banged around more than I care to think, but it still works just like it did out of the box. Great for 90 degree cut-offs.

I rarely have used it to cut miters; I just don't use them much in the work I do. When I have cut miters I haven't been overly impressed with the accuracy. I always make several trial cuts refining the position until I get it right. That's not what I expected, but since I do it so infrequently, it doesn't matter much.

The hold down clamp is pretty useless. I replaced the original spring with one much less stiff. Even so the whole assembly, clamp and gauge, flexes when I use the clamp. Setting the height of the clamp requires too much precision to get enough clamping force without distorting the miter gauge. The clamp foot is UHMW plastic and is very slippery. It doesn't mark your work piece, but it is so slippery it doesn't hold it either. The core problem is that you are clamping to the guide bar which is really not designed for the kinds of loads involved.

I still use my Accu-Miter ten plus years later, but I wouldn't buy it again. There are a large number of aftermarket miter gauges available. I haven't used any of them, but I like the look of the Jointech and JessEm products. The Osborne is a radical design but has been around for a long time. If all you want is accurate cross-cuts to length in a bomb-proof product, the Accu-Miter may be for you. Otherwise, I'd keep looking.

The miter guage pretty much fulfills my expectations after some fine tuning. I must however take issue with this webpage's apparently willful misrepresentation of the product. I neglected to read my fellow consumer's warning and to my dismay I received only part of what pictured above, (no clamp/handle mechanism.) They say it's an accesory, but their available accesories list includes only magic markers. Only after a long and arduous series of phone calls does it appear that customer service is going to make good on their pictoral representation. My advice to them: change the picture.

I had been searching for a miter guage better than the one included with my Jet 10 inch contractor saw. This appeared to be what I wanted. I ordered the miter gauge as well as the optional clamp.

The miter gauge and clamp arrived in a timely fashion. No parts were missing. I opted to follow the instructions for a change and the first thing that I noticed was that the instructions referenced pages in the manual. The pages were not numbered. Not a big problem since the manual was only 3 pages long.

It was interesting to note that one part of the manual dealt with attaching some of the components to your own sliding bar. I don't recall reading anywhere that this was possible.

It was annoying to have to reference three different documents to assemble this system. One was required for assembling the fence, Accu-Miter head and sliding bar. A second was required for assembly and use of the clamp. And yet a third was required to adjust and use the adjustable Accumiter Bar.

Adjustment of the Accumiter Bar was, in principle, easy. Unfortunately, the adjustment method was very difficult in practice. The expanding washers were very difficult to adjust. In fact, I badly twisted one allen wrench trying to achieve a fine adjustment. After the Accumiter bar was adjusted the remaining assembly was very straight forward.

With assembly and alignment complete I made some test cuts in the 90 degree position. I had repeated problems getting a square cut. After placing a 12 inch Starret straight edge against the fence I noticed that it had substantial curvature. I removed the fence and placed the concave surface on the infeed table of my jointer and measured a gap of approximately 3/32". In addition, the extruded fence was found to be twisted. When JDS was e-mailed regarding this problem they contacted me, by phone, and arranged to ship a new fence immediately. The new fence doesn't have this problem. Measurement of fence face with a Starret square showed that the top of the fence was 10 mils to 15 mils behind the base of the fence. This can be fixed with a couple of shims but, I was disappointed to find this.

I don't have a digital protractor, my best estimate is that after placing the fence at +/- 45 degrees and then returning to 90 degrees the cuts were within 1 degrees of the target.

The optional clamp is OK, but doesn't provide much holding power. Unfortunately, for pieces less than 8 inches, the positioner and the clamp interfere with each other.

In summary, this product will provide me with an enhanced miter gauge. However, a little tweaking will be required to get it exactly where I want it.

Although this kit contains several fittings, tees, angles, screw on connectors for the 4" tube, clamps etc....NONE OF THE FITTINGS seem to fit each other. I have been forced to grind the inner diameter of any part I want to fit.

Have tried to contact Delta by phone several times. No support e-mail address that I can find.

Perhaps you could get somewone at Delta to contact me....Thanks:

Walt 719/845-1091 or lobos@starband.net

As designed, this unit provides barely sufficient dust collection for one tool with 4-inch outlet. However, once the inner surface of the bag is covered with dust, if the hose runs are long, and/or the outlet is less than 4 inches, suction drops off dramatically. Since the climate where I live is fairly mild, I connected a 5-inch duct that goes through the wall and into a bin outside my shop. I keep the hose lengths short and move the collector from machine to machine. I also added 4-inch port openings on all machines. The ones with 2-inch openings performed poorly - worse dusting than with my Shop Vac connected. Also, unless the floor is level, the casters will rattle and the unit rolls around by itself. I replaced them with rubber leveling legs. After these changes, the AP300 works very well for my small shop. All of my machines are on casters and the AP300 tucks neatly under my saw table when not in use. I do not have room for even the smallest of the tall double-bagged units. Other observations:
- A 1-inch larger diameter impeller could've been installed for slightly better performance. The opening in the housing is large enough for a larger and deeper impeller to be installed.
- A DPST switch instead of a SPST switch would make 220V conversion much easier.
- The metal impeller cover and outlet flanges are too flexible and dust leaks from the seams.
- The tee, elbows, blast gates, and mounting brackets are useless since this unit does not have enough power for a multi-machine permanent installation. It would be better if they included male quick connect hose ends with the other accessories.
- A larger 1HP or 1.5HP motor would be nice.
There are probably marketing reasons for keeping the AP300 a low-cost, bottom-of-the-line unit, however a few changes would make this a far superior dust collector for small shop use.

I have a larger Delta dust collector that I have used in my shop for many years. I needed a dust collector for the opposite side of my shop where the larger collector wasn't doing very well due to a long run of pipe. I would recommend this collector for machines (band saw, radial arm saw, etc) that do not generate a lot of large chips and where short pipe runs are involved. A planer or jointer would fill the bag very quickly and, I believe, would not be suited as general shop dust collector. It is not very mobile as the dust bag tends to drag behind the collector when it is wheeled about. Overall, it has been a good purchase for me and does all that I expected.

One of the clamps we had broke and I sent it back to them as instructed. I never received a reply, no clamp, no response at all. I would consider their Warranty USELESS. We are going to buy a few of the Craftsman brand and try them out.

do not waste your money on this item. the craftsman version (from sears) is far superior to this. it features a trigger action that allows you to open and close the clamp, which is really nice when you are holding something together with one hand and trying to set your clamp with the other. the craftsman for about the same price, even cheaper when on sale thru craftsman club, is hands down a better tool.

Very nice clamps, I really like them. I have 15 of various lengths. However, try and get their Customer Service to back up their "Lifetime Warranty". I have filled out their forms on their web site -- no answer, I have called -- no return calls, and I have talked to some of their people and they just pass me on to someone else, never to someone to fill a part order. Call 1-800-GO-IRWIN or www.irwin.com. Find out they won't even respond. The "lifetime warranty" is worthless.
Craftsman makes a similar product. I'll try them next time.

Faucet has defective cartridge and water leaks under sink until cartridge is replaced. Takes Price Pfister 7 to 10 days to send you a new one unless you want to pay for over night shipping.

I went to my local Home Depot where i purchased my Sink, Faucet, and Countertop. I also bought 2 extra filters for when they needed changing. Well now i went back to the store and i cant find them anywhere. And it has been hell trying to find them online. Pfister Pfaucet Pfilter. pf**ed.

I have had this faucet (stainless steel) for several years and I love it. My only complaint is that we cannot buy the filters locally, however, I have found several places online (toohome.com, faucetsfast.com to name 2).

I DID NOT EXPECT THAT THIS FAMOUS BRAND IS NOW ONE OF THE MANY RESPECTED BRAND NAMES ALREADY BEING MADE IN CHINA. WE ALL WANT QUALITY TOOLS TO LAST. I HOPE THE QUALITY DOES NOT CHANGE

I am very pleased with how well this little vise works. I make silver jewelry and this was one of the few vises I have found with smooth clamp faces. I use it to draw wire, make bends and hold pieces for detail work. It is solid enough for some heavy hammering-on, and the screw is precise and smooth in operation. A very well-made tool.

Who in their right mind will pay $24.99 to ship a $59.99 product. You've got to be kidding me!

I received these clamps as a gift, and so far I'm very impressed with them. They seem to be very strong, and don't slip at all during use, unlike some of my Irwin clamps. I haven't had them for long, but they seem to be very well made, and I expect them to last me for a while. It appears that you can open up the body (handle) of the clamp with 4 screws, so it may be possible to perform maintenance on them if they ever do start to slip.

If you are wanting to use this with a stationary laser as I did, keep looking because this product won't work. Might be the best thing since sliced bread with a rotary laser, but that doesn't help if that isn't what you are using.

This product significantly raises the bar in features, performance, and reliability for laser dectectors in this price range. I have tried a variety of other "low cost" products and found that although the price was low, the units didn't work well and broke almost immediately. This unit has been a pleasant surprise which lives up to the DeWalt name.

I bought these jacks thinking they would be helpful. I was installing new kitchen cabinets by myself. While the concewpt is a good idea, unfortunately these jacks just don't do the job. They are poorly designed and cheaply made mostly of plastic. The end plates are too small and the jack post fit is too sloppy. You end up with a very loose and tippy jack. The height adjustment is too coarse to be able to tweak cabinet height to a line. I ended up tossing the jacks and doing it the old fashioned way with a ledger strip.

Can a 48 year old women install cabinets by herself? With these cabinet jacks from FastCap the answer is yes! I just finished installing all my wall cabinets and I don't think I could have done it without these jacks. I put up a 1x3 ledger board to rest the back of the cabinets on then used the jacks to level them and hold them in place. My hands were totally free to use my level, drill and other tools. I looked all over for cabinet jacks and most are much too expensive for one time use. These little guys are fantastic for the do it yourselfer.

Well this is my first time writing a review and it's because this is the worst tool I have ever purchased here (Amazon). The angle clamping mechanism makes the clamp itself move left or right when tightly clamped down. I purchased the 24" and 48" and want to return them but can't seem to find the manufacture of this product. I wanted to try re-selling them here but I don't have the heart to upset a potential buyer.

Great product, great quality, great price, great idea. I bought this and also the 24" and some of the Gator Clamps. Good to see, for once, the manufacturer has thought about the person who is using their tools, they are easy to handle and do the job well. Thank you Gator Clamps I am switching to your products from now on.