Odd Shaped Hooks??

[Martin King 2Participant @martinking2]

Hi All,

Just picked up yesterdays auction lots and in among the items I wanted is a box of about 100 of these odd threaded hooks.

Can anyone shed any light on what they might be for please?

Regards, Martin

[Martin King 2Participant @martinking2]

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

Some sort of vine eyes for lifting the wires down in spring?

[Martin King 2Participant @martinking2]

All the vine eyes that I can find have normal wood screw type threads not threads that take nuts?

Cheers, Martin

[File HandleParticipant @filehandle]

They might be to hold down roofing sheets, but these are normally a simple J hook. They do look more like they are to retain a wire / cable against a post or perhaps even heavy duty fencing.

[DC31kParticipant @dc31k]

It is not clear if they are best referred to as hooks or eyes. That makes identification more difficult. Possible useful search terms might be 'M6', 'threaded', 'BZP', 'folded'.

They could be useful if the threaded part is upwards, hence the other end is horizontal. You could almost throw a cable at them and it would drop into the eye. Maybe they are used with a chain to suspend strip lights.

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

I think DC31K might have it right !

I seem to recall coming across something like those items, many moons ago, maybe 60 years ago, so at this stage, I,m not too sure where I saw them or what they were for, but they did exist !

Anyone else have any ideas ?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Hangers for chain sounds good to me

… and let’s not get into assigning ‘personal pronouns’ to the poor innocent things … please.

MichaelG.

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

Posted by Martin King 2 on 15/10/2022 18:06:37:

All the vine eyes that I can find have normal wood screw type threads not threads that take nuts?

Cheers, Martin

For an ally greenhouse?

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

In North America this style of threaded hook was used for rigging residential TV aerials and their tripod towers just FYI, 1950's to 1970's era, before cable TV, and later, Blockbuster, satellite TV, Netflix etc. ate over-the-air TV's lunch.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I would call them something like runner loops for putting a line/cable.pipe in easily and removing it when finished

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

I think pgk & Jeff are close on the money, aren't they for pulling 'angle members' against a flat surface, the 'tang' at the loop end bears on the internal flat of the angle to keep the 'face' of it in firm contact with the supporting surface – the 'flat' bit of the 'L' projects outwards like a shelf into the loop.

Edited By DiogenesII on 16/10/2022 10:02:57

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

It is indeed one of the many variations of a 'roofing hook bolt' see here *** Fixfast Skills Hub ***

John

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

So for holding down roofs, explains those huge shanks and the curved loading point directly beneath the shank

Edited By Ady1 on 16/10/2022 13:49:47

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

They are designed as shepherds crooks for very strong Lillipution sheep.

[File HandleParticipant @filehandle]

Martin
Was there also square nuts, plastic washers and covering caps? although I have used the J hooks for other purposes, so have some but not the washers and caps. The shape seems better to hold the sheets on angle iron rather than concrete.John did better than me at finding them, when I initially suggested use for roofing sheets I only found the J hook shape from a quick search.

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