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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Quick-Grip Quick Change 506QC 6-Inch Bar Clamp/Spreader
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List Price: $27.64
Our Price: $11.99
Your Save: $ 15.65 ( 57% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: IRWIN
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Average Customer Rating: 
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Binding: Tools & Hardware
Brand: Irwin
EAN: 0038548506661
Feature: 2 tools in 1 - converts to a spreader by reversing clamp pad
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: IRWIN
Manufacturer: IRWIN
Model: 506QC
Publisher: IRWIN
Studio: IRWIN
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Features
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2 tools in 1 - converts to a spreader by reversing clamp pad
Quick one-handed operation
Non-marring, stay-on pads, that protect finish and yet can be replaced
Made in the USA from the makers of vise-grip locking hand tools
Full lifetime warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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Quick Change, 6" Bar Clamp/Spreader, Multi Position Jaws Can Be Positioned Anywhere On The Bar Making Even The Most Challenging Clamping Or Spreading Task A Snap, Clamping Capacity 6", Spreading Capacity 7-1/2" To 14-5/8", Non Marring Pads.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Little Grippers
Comment: If you do woodworking, these little grips are a must. I have used mine for many years to hold a great many things. I could not get on well without them. Easy one handed operation with a strong grip. excellent.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great clamp - OK price.
Comment: As with so many of my reviews, I have to say that this is a superior product but only an "ok" price. For a woodworker who works alone, these clamps are the next best thing to a paid assistant. So often it seems that I am standing on my head while balancing two awkward pieces that I need to do something to, and I just don't have enough hands to clamp it all down securely and accurately. Thats where these clamps shine. I use them to hold work to my bench while I sand/drill/saw/route. I use them to hold work to my drill press table. I use them as a spreader when I am finished dry-fitting a snug mortise and tenon joint. I keep several of these clamped to my workbench legs so that I will always have one in easy reach. Try it and you'll be amazed how much you use these "extra hands". Because this is how I use these clamps, I have found the 6" and 4" to be the most useful sizes. I do not like thse clamps for glue ups as they do not have the clamping pressure of traditional bar or pipe clamps.
As for the price, I found a holiday sale where I got 2 for $15. Normally thet are about $15 each at Menards, Lowe's etc.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Size doesn't matter, it's the mechanics that make it great..
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good Clamp, Small Size
Comment: This clamp uses the ingenius trigger grip design for unbelievable ease of use. This makes the clamp unbelievably easy to tighten using one hand. A few warnings about this particular product, however: (1) Be sure the size is correct. 6" is usually too small for the projects I use clamps for. This size has been great for small projects, however. I think the 18" size is a better all-around size. (2) The plastic construction makes the clamps best for holding items "approximately" in place. If you need total clamping for cutting precision, look elsewhere. All in all, a good product if it is the right size, and used for the right purpose.
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