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Sometimes you have to do things this way. We can't always have everything hand dovetailed and shellacked. When I needed to get my clamps off of the floor at 10 at night, there was no other available option. This rack cost me nothing. That is the inherent beauty of it. And, if I get around to shellacking it later, so be it.
Many moons ago, when the wife was making teddy bears for craft sales, I (being the cheap so and so that I am) made the joint hardware rather than let her pay oodles of cash for the pre-made plastic ones. Actually it was her idea. We make a good pair.
When it was all over with I had a whole pile of 1 inch dowel stock lying around that I have been dragging around the countryside in various moves. Taking a 2x4 offcut, I decided to drill 1 inch holes at a 7 degree angle (I approximated - no need to really measure) spaced far enough apart that 3/4 inch pipe would slip easily between them but they would catch the heads of the pipe clamps, thus keeping the buggers from getting any rustier on the floor.
A piece of 1x6 clamped to a scrap of 1/4 inch plywood made a suitable ramp for the drill press. I clamped a scrap of 2x3 down as a fence, trapping the plywood on the drill press table, and placed my 2x4 with the premarked holes on my makeshift jig. I drilled nearly all the way through (I test drilled the first hole then remembered the number that rolled around on the drill press handle - I didn't even bother to set the depth stop - then replicated the depth on subsequent holes) then moved to the next hole. After all the holes were drilled, I started to crosscut dowel stock.
Figuring I had been lazy enough, I clamped a stop block to my sliding compound miter saw and cut enough 8 inch dowel stubs to fit all the holes. Then, in the 2x4 offcut, I predrilled 6 countersunk holes for 2 inch #10 square drive screws so that I could screw the rack to the wall studs. I installed it level on the wall, then filled the holes with glue. Finally I placed the dowel stubs into the holes and set the clamps in the rack while it dried. Voila. C'est fini. I had to unload it so you could even see it. Actually it looks not too bad. Here is a closeup. At any rate, it is a damnsite better than some of the other clamp racks I am using right now.
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