Where can one get..

Probably at any chandlers, but make sure your wallet is ready for the shock ...

Yacht chandlers and similar suppliers, like :-

House and Home here in Leyburn sell them along with all manner of hardware odds and sods all in little drawers where you can help yourself. Metal casings but plastic pulleys.

I bought one earlier this year for my flagpole!

Mike

I have an ancient one here with a forged body. Which has a wood thread screw sticking out of it. To screw directly into a joist. Steel pulleys though, for that authentic sound from childhood.

Something like this?

Plenty of other versions too.

Richard

Brian Gaff submitted this idea :

I bought several a few years ago from ebay, to make a fancy clothes line system. All were single pulleys, if that makes a difference to your application?

I was leaning toward this idea for other parts for my put up a short wave aerial project as well, as most rope one finds in the sheds seems to disintegrate in the sun as well. Brian

Hard for me from amazon or other on line due to not being able to see the pretty pictures of corse. i can do the work myself, its the pictures that give me the issue. maybe one of those nice new cloud based image recognition apps is the answer. Trrouble is my friend has one and it thought the inside of her bedroom was a coal bunker. Brian

Lots of choices ...

single or double pulley

stainless/galvanised/brass body

metal or plastic rollers

diameter of wire/rope

the external diameter of the pulley

whether it has a swivel at neither/one/both ends

Brian,

I'm afraid you do want the yacht chandlers, expensive as it will be. They'll happily sell you stainless steel rope which will laugh at ultraviolet and acid rain, together with any pulleys you might want.

Andy

It's a wonderful shop that is.

Bill

Bill

Vir Campestris explained on 04/06/2018 :

I managed to buy stainless wire rope, plastic covered. Its plastic covered is better for clothes hanging, if that is what is needed?

Have you come across this app?

BeMyEyes