Ideas for hanging signs

[DerbyBorn]

I am involved with an industrial museum in an old factory. We would like to hang some signs over some exhibits but climbing up to attach signs to the steelwork will not be allowed - unless we pay a specialist to do it.

I had thought of some lower catenary wires - but we sometimes use a Fork Truck to move exhibits so that is out of the question.

Thinking now of stiff wire that we could form a hook and hook it over a cross girders. The wire would need to be stiff to enable that. Nor sure what I could buy - thinking coathanger wire.

Any ideas? Really don't want to end up with floor standing feather banners.

Signs would probably be on foam board - so not heavy.

[Peter Andrews]

Peter

[DerbyBorn]

Peter Andrews wrote in news:oj04ar$hot$ [e-mail]:

Great idea - we have a local suspended ceiling company.

[Brian Gaff]

Galvanised iron wire. Easy to bend strong enough for what you want I'd suggest but you would need some kind of long pole to get the ends over the girders.

Not knowing how high the girders actually, could not comment on the health and safety aspect but surely if its lower than a domestic ladder that people can buy and use, then it ought to be safe if a person was on station at the bottom and a simple system of hooking over the girder was fashioned to stop sideways slip. Brian

[Robin]

I don't know how high you intend to have the signs but if they are within the range of prats jumping to swing from them then I suppose you need to have regard to the failure mode. While one might hope that such prats would be held to deserve all they get - up to and including magnets landing on their heads from a great height - I fear the legal system would not agree.

That may be one advantage of nylon fishing line over the girders - assuming suitable H&S procedures in place before bolts are fired :)

[tabbypurr]

2 simple options: 1.6mm galvanised iron wire. Rigid & strong enough for this. String: tie a bogroll on one end & throw it over the beam. If it's to be low enough for idiots to strangle themselves, use a weak string substitute. Your local haberdasher will have plenty. Even sewing thread is enough for lightweight signs out of reach.

NT

[Graham.]

They do tend to swing laterally in the breeze although for a museum full of beam engines that might be quite fitting.

[tabbypurr]

Upto the OP how many wires/strings they use.

NT

[spuorgelgoog]

Do you know anyone in Am Dram with a tallescope and the requisite permits?

Owain