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Maybe it's called 'clamps' in english ...

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John Hill:



Here is my version...


IMGP9634 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr

......those are inches on the rule.


Here is my effort with some really hard 12gauge fence wire, it is really awful stuff to try to do anything with (except build fences of course).  I think the baling wire would be a real cinch with a tool of this size.


IMGP9635 by MrJohnHill, on Flickr

ksor:
Mine are nearly that size too - AND I have added the extra pin at the tip now.

I notice, that you "only" made a "single" clamp with the fence wire - that did halfen (or more) the time spend, I think.

Notice, I'm not saying it can't be done - I'm just saying it takes too long time !

And I sure there ARE cases where a clamp like this IS the best - maybe the only - solution to the problem.

I just expented more from the tool.

Fergus OMore:
This, I must add, is pretty old stuff.
I did a City and Guilds in Motor Vehicle restoration and I used a very much simpler set of clips.
I'd made a set of fasteners on the lathe but then discovered that Frosts, an old established body work shop sold them in packs of 10.
This is nearly 40 years ago and mine were made of 1mm steel for insertion between high strength low alloy steel which had been airhacksawed from Nissan panels and which we had to Mig up again.

Basically, 'mine' were scraps of flat steel radiator sheet with two holes and taper pins which nipped up the panels. If bits were lost in an enclosed section, so what, they were cheap enough.

Even the Nissans were 'free', we got them as rejects from the local factory and hacked and chewed them-- and handed them back simply to satisfy the tax man and his accounting.

It was, and is no great thing.

Regards

Norman

Pete.:
It's a better idea than the one further down his page of mounting a laptop on a wall bracket right above a double radiator :)

John Hill:
Yes the idea is quite old and even tools like that have been available for about 100 years. 

But they do have their uses other than on rubber hoses.

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