re: TIPS ... for equipment maintenance

When buying new bar clamps it is good idea to wax the bars before you start using them. That way errant glue that drips on them will come right off. I didn’t do this on some parallel jaw clamps and they had so much glue on they wouldn’t slide on the bars. It took me 2 hours w/ heat gun and a file card to get all of the glue off on 4 clamps, lesson learned.