I’ve seen (and read) a lot of clamp reviews over the years. Most of them cobble together a series of pseudo-scientific testing parameters and torture tests that seem important but actually do very little to tell you how the clamps will perform over the course of years in your shop. So when I decided to conduct a review of the Harbor Freight Bremen Parallel Clamps (https://sovrn.co/qarzz1w), I knew I had to approach this with a common sense frame of mind. We won’t be testing the flatness of panels, the squareness of the heads, or the clamping force available (watch this video to see why – The Truth about Parallel Clamps https://youtu.be/FwXVJusqv0s). Instead, we’re going to do something incredibly ground-breaking: we’re going to use the clamps for a few months.
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00:00 Intro and disclaimer
00:43 First impressions
02:12 Smooth or Serrated
02:57 Foot and Standoffs
03:40 How to open and close the clamp
04:20 Free falling head hand crushers
05:35 Reversible head
06:01 Closer look at the screw
06:44 Closer look at the handle
07:24 Closer look at the heads
08:22 Head-Toeing
08:58 New Shirts at twwstore.com
09:17 Cost comparison
10:08 Real-World Test Setup
11:13 2 Months Later
12:09 A Problem
13:52 Let’s Open it Up!
15:11 Respectfully Disassembled
16:01 Comparing it to a working clamp
16:29 Dissecting a Bessey Clamp
17:50 Adding more time to the test
18:31 Two more months later
19:35 Jason gets a replacement at Harbor Freight
20:13 Pros and Cons Conclusion
21:01 Pricing as of 5/22/23
21:49 Hobbyist perspective
22:30 Don’t Leave Yet!
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