Show your clamp racks please.

[dwillis]

You’ve discovered the flaw in my design, which I failed to initially identify. Several weeks ago I was reorganizing my lumber storage and started by taking all the wood off the rack, which immediately fell over, surprising me, and making a mess in the process. As you accurately noticed the rack is inherently unstable without sufficient wood to counterbalance the weight of the clamps. [crying]

One solution would be to move the rack closer to the center of the platform, but that would decrease wood storage capacity. When I designed and built the rack it was simply for lumber storage, and was movable because I’m still in the process of building my workshop, and was tired of having to move the wood around. While unpacking tools I was also looking for a place to temporarily store clamps, and the backside of the rack was a perfect location.

In the long term I’ll build a wall mounted clamp rack to provide more capacity, after all are there ever enough clamps? I still haven’t decided if the rack will also be fixed or mobile. One advantage of mobility is I can move the rack into the garage to offload material from the car to rack, then roll the rack into the workshop.

 

[Euclid]

Instability notwithstanding, your mobile cart looks very useful, dwillis; could you perhaps double-skin the base 'platform' and slot a couple of paving slabs inside as ballast?  (Or perhaps you have already weighted it in some way?)

 

[dwillis]

I've got a piece of steel plate that I dug out of the ground when we were building the house that'd work perfectly as a counter weight, about 70 pounds. Thanks for the advice!

 

[Steve1]

I got a new dust collector and put it into the storage room beside my shop area. 
I had to eliminate one set of shelves to fit the dust collector, but I was left with a small section of wall that I figured was perfect for storing my pipe clamps.  I have a handfull of Bessy pipe clamp units and a mess-load of pipe of various lengths. 
A rail with blind holes at the bottom, and a U-slot with magnet at the top.

(By the way, if you look closely at the dust collector filter cleaner motor on the right, you will see what every P-Flux needs - an OFF-ENABLE switch for the filter cleaner.  It's supposed to run every 10 minutes, but it also cycles every time you turn off the machine.  I am just a hobbyist, and my typical procedure is turn it on, make a few cuts, turn it off.  Gonna prematurely damage the filter cycling the cleaner that often)

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[ChuckM]

Cool with the auto filter cleaner feature. The HEPA filter (2,000 hours of life) should last 10 years (4 hrs per week) or more for most hobby shops. Many hobby woodworkers I know don't even spend 1 hour a week in woodworking on a regular basis.

 

[jronman]

I built this unconventional clamp rack. It is my own design. Is it the most practical? maybe not but I was more going for something that wasn't just the same as everyone else. I don't know why it posted sideways.

 

[woody42]

Store bought racks mounted on carrier boards screwed to studs.