Electrix VC-8 Vice Clamp with Integrated Models, 6" x 4" x 4"

After having purchased an Electrix 7732 lamp, I decided to configure it as a clamp-on lamp instead of permanently installing it on my work table. When I received this VC-8 clamp, I was surprised about how much shoddier the design is versus what the picture shows, and I can only surmise that Electrix has changed their manufacturing process for this, or have outsourced it to another manufacturer to produce more cheaply.For this item, it consists of a flat c-style clamp with an added 3" by 5" top plate pop-riveted to the top of the clamp. The picture in this Amazon page must be an older version of this, since no pop-rivets are visible in the picture. I would assume that version used spot welds or the clamp was originally just a one-piece design.The problem with using pop rivets is that the ends of the rivets stick down into the clamping region, and depending on what surface is being clamped to, a softer surface could be damaged or scratched by the pop-rivet ends, or the pop-rivet ends could be damaged if the surface was hard enough.They included a separate metal plate for the bottom-side of the c-clamp (to protect the surface from the rotating screw end), and they also included a thin plastic sheet with adhesive on one side and a velvet-like surface on the other for the top-side of the clamp. On my clamp, this plastic sheet was awkwardly placed on the top of the pop rivets, so the only adhesive attachment was the tiny regions of the ends of the pop rivets themselves. Repeated clamping will certainly cause this plastic sheet to be deformed and eventually fall off, since there isn't even a square centimeter of adhesive holding it on.For this clamp I now own, since I don't have access to a spot-welder, I will likely just use adhesive bumpers attached to the underside of the c-clamp to prevent the pop-rivets from making contact with the surface being clamped to. This shouldn't have been necessary if the clamp was properly designed and manufactured.