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Workshop Tip: A simple wingnut improves any toggle clamp

Replacing the top nut with a wingnut makes adjustments easy

#281-Mar/Apr 2020 Issue

Toggle clamps have two nuts for adjusting the height of their pressure tips, requiring two wrenches and some frustrating fiddling. If you replace the top nut with a wingnut or clamp knob, height adjustments become quick and easy, with no wrenches needed.

—JEFF BREMER, Los Angeles

Illustrations by Dan Thornton
From Fine Woodworking issue #281

	Toggle Clamps Get a grip on workshop problems with these handy devices
	New foot for a toggle clamp When I needed a longer foot for one of my toggle clamps, I came upon this simple solution
	Small Clamps Everybody Needs JUNE 4, 2008 We put dozens to the test, but only 7 emerged as must-haves for woodworkers

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