My shop is 16 X 28 and space is at a premium so all of my clamps hang on my walls from pegboard hangers.  Here's my frustration and hopefully someone has a solution.  The micky mouse plastic strips that are supposed to hold the hangers in clace don't work.  When I reach for a clamp the hanger pulls out of the pegboard with the clamp.  Anyone have a solution to tie the hanger permanantly to the pegboard?

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Ron Dudelston
Site Host


Above and Beyond WoodWorks

I'm not exactly sure how your pegboard is set up but the way I vision it you can put a thin square piece of wood on the back at the pin and screw it onto the peg. Maaybe?

I'm not sure also if that would be any better/easier than cleats

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Charles Nicholls
Site Host
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I have the same set up Ron, and I have not those same issues.

One thing I am wondering is if you have the right size pegs for the pegboard? There are two different thickness pegs and two different diameter peg holes. The pegs should fit snug. How do yours fit?

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

Most of my hangers are the straight type with a small ball at the end. It's the curved ones and the ones with the upward slant at the end that give me problems. 

Most of my clamps hang on an 8' 2X4 set away from the wall with 2X4 blocks. 

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Gene
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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

I don't like the peg board hangers for the stated reasons. They come loose even with the little plastic straps. There was at one time an alternate type that has hooks with an expandable plug that is installed into the hole and then a round pin inserts into the plug that locks it in place. I did a search but I haven't found them. I'll look later today and see if I can find them and I'll post if I find them.

I found them. Here's the link. http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=2524&site=ROCKLER

This is just one site that carries them, but there are other retailers that carry this brand and all the reviews are positive. 

Ron you know we are close friends and I don't want to start a war - ho ho dee ho ho, but having spent almost 60 years being in and out of several hundred shops, teaching the subject(s) in HS for 15 years, owned a few small mfg. companies ..........yada yada ........... I decided to declare war on peg board about 35 years ago and go all cabinets, shelves, roll around tool boxes, etc. I just got tired of attempting to store my shop related support equipment on pegs, pegs falling out, dust all over my tools, stuff falling off of the pegs, etc. After discussing this matter with a lot of shop owners and shop teachers over the years I have observed several of them also made the transition away from peg board. Case in point .......... most home shop people can take a 3 tier roll around tool box and store most of their hand tools and a lot of their machinery accessories that are small in drawers. French cleat wall mounted cabinets work great for the flexibility of storing hand held power tools, and shelves work for other items such as lumber and the list goes on. As per clamp storage a simple wall mount L shaped shelf would suffice, or a L shaped bracket on the side of a wall mounted cabinet, or stored horizontally under a lumber rack, or in the corner, if in a basement where the underside of floor joists are available there is a multitude of cubic feet of storage between them which obviously would be overhead, but with proper bracketry a multitude of clamps an other objects could be stored, and the list goes on. 

We have had several "Shop Storage" presentations at the OWAMMO's Gatherings and I will conclude that most people have at some point become frustrated with peg board and moved to some of the aforementioned forms of storage.

Again these are my thoughts, but I temper them with past experiences with peg board. 

Thanks and take care my friend(s) ~ Dan 

Thanks gang.  You've given me alternatives.

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Ron Dudelston
Site Amdinistrator

Above and Beyond WoodWorks

I will give you one more to consider depending on how many clamps you have.

This is the rolling clamp rack by Norm Abram on the NYWS that I made a few years back. For me in my shop it works great. I got the plans for it if you are interested.

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Allen Worsham
Corona, CA

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