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Advice hanging signs with fishing wire
Good afternoon,
I rarely have jobs that involve hanging stuff with fishing wire so I always do knots but it’s a real pain if you need to put something level or if the customer wants that a little bit higher.
Few days ago I have seen a guy using a crimp tool and what looked like some sleeves. I looked on Internet but I can’t decide what tool is the best and what size the sleeves should be.
My other concern is how strong is this tie?
Anyone able to advise please?
Thank you,
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I’m assuming you mean a nylon type fishing wire?
I think I’ve seen the sort of thing you’re talking about, but they were used with steel wire and not fishing wire. If it is what I’m thinking of, you need to be very careful that the ‘crimping sleeve’ doesn’t cut into fishing line causing it to be much weaker, or even cutting through.
Is there not some sort of plastic sleeving that can be used and heated with a gun to bond the fishing line?
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Being a keen beach angler I use fishing line quite often – mainly because it’s what I have to hand!
I always use what is knows as ‘Shock leader’ at around an 80lb breaking strain, overkill perhaps but it’s not going to fail!
I tend to just tie knots that I know and am pretty good at getting them level. you can buy crimps but I don’t use them (for fishing or otherwise) as the can weaken the line.
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Hi,
Yes, I mean fishing line/nylon.
What sort of knots do you do, Hugh? I do what is called "easy fishing knot" (google it) but, as I said, the troubles start when I have to make adjustments, most of the time meaning to put a new string.
Cheers
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Hi, there’s loads of knots you could use, to be honest I’ve used the knots for so many years on the beach that I don’t know what they’re called.
ok, searched it and the most common I use is called the arbor knot, see here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PR68PmvOA0
if the sign is correx or too soft to pull a tight knot on it I will just gentle but secure knot, otherwise I’ll use the same on the sign too. once the lines are attached to the sign (make them too long), cut them to the same length, I then take the screw eye and attach it in the same way, it takes a little practice to get the stop knot – the second in the video in the same place but once you do that it will leave the lines the same length when tightened up.
you will get some line twist when screwing the eye in – to counter this, turn the eye in the opposite direction (same amount of turns as the screw takes to go in) and then screw it in. The other option I’ve used where the sign is changed frequently is to use a screw hook in the ceiling and just tie the line to a key ring loop, if the length is slightly out you can always just tie another simple knot in the line to reduce the length. you don’t need to use a keyring look either, you can just make a loop in the line but that’s harder to get accurate.
Hugh
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Thank you, Hugh!
That knot is much easier and faster than what I do. I have a job next week, I will give it a try.Have a good weekend
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