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Re: Pipe Hanger Strap Hack ][

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In alt.hackers, Buzz McCool  <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I needed some loop clamps, the type with rubber insulation / padding around them, in order
> to loom some insulated power cord (electric car charger cord) securely in my garage.
> 
> ObHack:
> My second pipe hanger strap hack: I bent pipe hanger strap in the same shape as the loop
> clamp and used some left over vinyl exterior door weather strip / door sweep to form the
> padding. This weather strip has lips that matched the width of the pipe hanger well enough
> that it would stay in place on the pipe hanger strap.

Not a bad solution.

I, too, needed to route my electric car charger cord from one place in
the garage to the point where the car charging port usually sits. I made
a wire rope cable to size, with a turnbuckle for tightening it, and
strung it between two screw hooks I put in the walls. Then I made
special S hooks with a small upper loop to slip on the wire rope and a
large lower loop to hold the car charging cable. This way I didn't need
to thread the plug through or attach anything directly to the ceiling.
The ceiling in the garage is plaster and lath and no fun at all screwing
things into.

I have a stock of small gauge wire rope and clamps plus compression sleeves
that I use mostly for garden work. Stringing up lines for directing vine
and rose bush growth. Usually I'll one permanent loop with a compression
sleeve (just crush in a vise), and the second one in place with one or
two u-clamps. This cable run, with the turnbuckle, is fancier than I
usually make them, but I didn't want much sagging to displace my S
hooks. After I made it, I found I really needed to keep the S hook
openings just barely able to accommodate the top wire rope and bottom
electric cable because the wire rope is taut enough to be springy and
that can cause either end of the S hook to come off.

Elijah
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just bent some 14 ga wire with a pliers to make the S hooks

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Pipe Hanger Strap Hack ][ Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2026-06-25 09:04 -0700
  Re: Pipe Hanger Strap Hack ][ Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-06-25 23:26 +0000

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