Boys and Girls,

 

It seems I was proactive in the past and taken copies of some of my past LJ BS posts and unfortunately for you poor wretches, this was one that I can now post here. Hell, you never know, some may not have read it there and some may find this as a method for those incalcitrant dusty hoses.

 

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Boys and Girls,

Dis cord or dat cord, no matter which cord, they both get in your way when trying to manoeuvre tools around in a small workshop.

Let's re-introduce capital punishment and all those guilty, should be hanged. Unfortunately, electrocution or lethal injection is reserved for the delinquent operators.

The pinnacle of this suspension method are these snap hooks (surprisingly, made by Pinnacle),

I used to make my own hanging noose, using rope eyes,

and 6mm or 8mm shock cord

Other weapons in my gallows arsenal are these cable ties,

(which I purchased from Bunnings… they were a discontinued item so I bought all their remaining 4 strips of stock… so don't come to Morwell searching for them)... and these key ring connectors,

which make repositioning the anchor point easy,

As the rope eyes were metal, I could use these magnetic pickup rods,

to "string" them up from the ceiling using hooks,

or just strung over my "ceiling joists",

and front ended them with the snap hook, key ring and cable ties,

Browsing through my local $2 shop to police they didn't carry $3+ items, I found these bungee straps with aluminium snap hooks at either end,

At $2.99 each (just under the $3 and avoided being arrested), they are a lot cheaper than my shop made ones and a tad quicker to assemble (just rip the idiotic packaging apart... and try not to do the same to your hand... rip apart).
 
Unfortunately science is yet to invent aluminium magnets so my mag rod was useless. I started using my outdoor blind pull rod (as I had no outdoor blinds) 

to hang these aluminium snap hooks

and rig out the shop-vac hose using the key ring and cable tie,

... the cord for the sander was just looped through a separate suspended snap hook

boasting a mini inline switch (circled).

Armed with the above hanging nooses I can prevent both the power cable and shop-vac hose (if required for the job) from interfering with the normal flow of my workshop processes.
Note: the above picture was posed for by stunt doubles and not necessarily located in their actual working environment.

The major benefit of the shock cord (bungee) is their elasticity and give support while permitting movement past the contracted (non-stretched… not solicitor speak) length of the cord(s).
 
I use these cords extensively in my workshop to suspend everything just short of my jocks and sox,

If you didn't like this idea, you can hang your head in shame for reading this far.

PS. For all you bookworms that hung on every word I wrote… Morwell has the nearest Bunnings store to downtown Churchill.

 

 

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