Trying to find clamps

I also love the harbor freight bar clamps, for the price.  The 6 inch Irwin ones are slightly better, but more expensive unless they are on sale.

I found these at Menards:

Clamp

Altough, these may be a too large for what you are looking for.

Also, you can try Micromark

Harbor Freight for plastic clamps.

This is the type of clamp I think those who mentioned Harbor Freight are talking about:

They're nylon, and HF sells them in a tube of a dozen or so, in different sizes.

If you get these, do be aware that the gripping surface might need some help to grip and not let the clamp slip off.  For example, when used to clamp the upper and lower halves of a wing, the clamps have slipped right off from the force of the spring and insufficient friction to the piece.

I've put masking tape on some of mine; others have mentioned gluing bits of sandpaper or other abrasives.

I still use clothespins for most clamping jobs, or rubber bands.

One thing that I have been using for a very long tine are wooden spring loaded clamps that are used to hang up laundry on a clother line and small -medium metal clamps trhat have rubber coated handles and tips.They are just over 2" long and can hold thing pretty well.  I bought my first ones at Sears but later found them hardware stores.

I would have to also recommend mini bar clamps.  Have not marred anything with them yet.  I got my Irwin clamps at a dollar store.  Another thing that gets a lot of use on my bench are my plastic hemostats.  Not as strong a clamp as the others but do in most situations especially tiny areas that other clamps don't fit into.

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This is the type of clamp I think those who mentioned Harbor Freight are talking about:

They're nylon, and HF sells them in a tube of a dozen or so, in different sizes.

If you get these, do be aware that the gripping surface might need some help to grip and not let the clamp slip off.  For example, when used to clamp the upper and lower halves of a wing, the clamps have slipped right off from the force of the spring and insufficient friction to the piece.

I've put masking tape on some of mine; others have mentioned gluing bits of sandpaper or other abrasives.

I still use clothespins for most clamping jobs, or rubber bands.

 

No, I was talking about bar clamps. I like them because they allow a good adjustment for the pressure.  The spring clamps only have a pressure based on how far they are open.