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MASSIVE Home Depot/Lowes - Bessey/Irwin Clamp Gloat!!!!!

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Most woodworking forums have threads on the Home Depot/Lowes Bessey/Irwin clamp liquidation sales over the past few weeks.

My Lowes and HD still had everything at or close to full retail, so I figured it was just a regional thing.

Well, last week, my Dad called me to tell me he had seen Irwin clamps on clearance at HD. Sure enough, when I went in, there were a few 24" parallel clamps on sale for $20, and a bunch of the medium/heavy duty f-clamps etc… for sale for around $10. I also noticed the father's day 4-pack of Bessey f-clamps for $20 at the front.

So I grabbed a few clamps:

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It cost me around $85, which I thought was a pretty good deal.

Then I went to Lowes tonight on my way home from work to pick up some Kreg screws. Keep in mind that just last week, the "clearance" price on all the Bessey clamps was 10% off at best.

Well apparently that changed. When I looked at the tag, I couldn't believe my eyes. I grabbed a cart and loaded up.

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Guess how much…....

$75

The parallel clamps were insane:
40" - $8
50" - $7 (no idea why it was $1 less)

And all the assorted f-clamps, spring clamps, pipe clamps, strap clamps, 90deg clamps, etc… were all under $5. (most were only $1 or 2).

The funny part is that I almost made a new clamp rack last night. Good thing I didn't.

Oh - and of course - I forgot the Kreg screws.
 

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Travis.

They had a bunch of the 24" parallel clamps last week, but those were all gone.

I could cut down my 50"'s if I needed to, but I actually could have used them a few weeks ago.

This still only brings my parallel clamp total to 11. I could go through those in 10 minutes.
 
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That's an unbelievable deal on those bessey clamps, I thought I did good this morning getting a 24" and a 36" K-body for $40 for the pair. I'll be checking out the other store not too far away tomorrow morning.
 
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Thank you very much JTM. Because of this little tip, I was able to swing by Lowes early enough to snag a few items. Being short on cash at the time I could only pick up three of the five F style clamps but I did get the three and an articulated ball-joint vise which I've been meaning to purchase for some weeks. All four items came to $18.25.

The Lowes in my town just has two 24" F type clamps, some C clamps and a couple pipe clamp fixtures now. I missed the $8 40" cabinet clamps as they were all sold out.

Really happy about the articulated vise though. That saved me $20 and I needed one.

Also picked up an ABS hydraulic control unit for my Ranger for $20 at the junk yard plus saved on cabinet components switching to a new hardware distributor. Today was just a good day for saving money period.
 
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Got three 1/2 pipe clamps for 2.50 ea, 2 10" wood screw clams 2.97 ea and a 90 degree clamp for 5.00. They wouldn't budge on the 50" parallel clamp, no big deal I already have 4 Jorgy's in the big size. Thanks for the heads up, I saved a bundle.
 
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^ Yep. Went to my local Lowes. Parallel clamps were gone and the rest were only about 30% off regular retail. There were quite a few deeper F clamps still on the rack, so I'll wait a week or so and go back to see if they've marked them down any more.
 
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