A few years ago I bought hog/fence rings which were a flat piece of metal a few mm wide and just over a cm long. Don't they make these any more? They're all round in cross section now and don't work nearly as well.
This is what I want:
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This is what I don't want:
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looks like this when used:
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As you can see it doesn't make a tight fit, the flat ones did.