simple really . voice your opinion online .
No discussion , it has already been covered since 2004 unless you want to discuss how handsome Charlie is ( he gets it from his Dad of course )
He is walking now and saying Daddy . :)
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simple really . voice your opinion online .
No discussion , it has already been covered since 2004 unless you want to discuss how handsome Charlie is ( he gets it from his Dad of course )
He is walking now and saying Daddy . :)
A clamp is good for gripping, a cramp is cause for griping!
A grip is good for either... :yeah:Quote:
Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
Rick,
you need a "I use both terms interchangeably" option (I don't, but some might)
Mick
You're right Mick but I dont know how now and its simple this way anyway . Looks like clamp is easily the prefered term .
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Originally Posted by journeyman Mick
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Originally Posted by rick_rine
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Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
I go with clamp, but it sounds painful either way:o :)(Quote:
Originally Posted by Shedhand
Well there you go.:D :D
:compress: Cramped in a clamp.
Gripped in a gripe!
Ping - time to get this going again
John A Walton (who wrote the textbook on woodwork used in NSW when I was at school, Woodwork in Theory and Practice) calls the things 'cramps' (p8) and he then used the verb 'clamp'.
John Sainsbury in Planecraft, refers frequently to 'C clamps (G cramps)'.
So it would seem that the usage is not so perverse as some have indicated when they refer to books, suggesting that it is not often used there.
G'day,
On my recent visit to Brisbane to collect the remaining tools from my Dad's estate I got this clamp. Initially it was rusty as, then with a dip in citric acid I found a really beaut find and that it wasn't a clamp, but a cramp.
You may or may not be able to read all the detail on the body of the cramp, but it reads, "The Maun Carpenters Cramp, made in England by Maun Industries LTD. No. 269/.
The inscription above is very nicely etched. Definitely a keeper and user.
Size: 120x380
So, is cramp the original term and the Yanks got lazy and decided they'd be different and call them clamps, and like most things we've adopted their terms?
OHUCH! I have a terrible Cramp in my hand from tightening so many Clamps.... Onry Japinese pipple gets Clamps in their lists from doing up too many Cramps! ;)