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:
This is what I don't want:
As you can see it doesn't make a tight fit, the flat ones did.
Are these close enough?
Amazon:
Perfect, thankyou! The reason I couldn't find those is I had forgotten the name "j clip". When I looked for galvanised rings and fencing clips, I just found "hog rings" and assumed they'd been redesigned. I must write down "j clip" somewhere.
On 11/26/2018 11:47 AM, Bruce Farquhar wrote: ...
Those would never work for the original purpose of hog rings... :)
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[Yankee accent] That there would be back in 1648!
What I don't understand is them being used to fasten together upholstery on vintage cars. You'd think you'd just rip the leather.
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