HOW TO make nail swivels...AND J hooks

[lynxcat]

OK the "other post" went missing(probably deleted due to hunt101 changing) so HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! I am going to show you how to CHEEPELY and quickly make the STRONGEST J HOOKS around..and also how to make the Sterling type swivels...
TOOLS: for the majority of the work you need a good nut driver..most have hollow shanks, make SURE you get one with a DEEP hollow shank as in the last picture.



SHALLOW


DEEP


For the JIG all you need is two STEEL rods welded to a solid base, (I prefer 1/2" rods) be it a table or anvil or vice. FIRST pic is of my baseplate press AKA trap tag stamper AKA nail swivel maker, 2nd picture is of a welding table mounted setup.

IN PICTURE 2 we start out by bending the nail as seen in the picture USING the nutdriver with the nail inserted deeply.(WHEN bending make sure the ribbing on the nail is 90% OFF of the bend due to possible fracturing hence bend left to right ribs top/bottom THANKS Bill)

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NEXT rotating the nail 180 degrees start your bend.



Bend finished..


NEXT bend another nail as seen..


Cut off the ends and you have these 3 components(forgot the nuts lol)

Assemble and THERE ya go!!


THANK YOU Joel Blakeslee for the ORIGINAL pictorial a few years ago.. AND thanks to WILD Bill Illick for the design.. LYNX...the "helpful" one..

[lynxcat]

Some of the pic's are MINE...some are originals of Joels... NOTICE the heavy nail head... NOTHING wrong with those!!!

[trappnman]

thanks lynx- look pretty easy

[mostinterestingmanintheworld]

Ha ha there are pics of my feet!!

Yeah it took me a while to find those heavy headed nails.

Joel

[lynxcat]

Those pic's were back when Joel could SEE his feet LOL

[kyboy]

Your gonna put a lot of fellers out of buisiness teaching everyone that Lynx'e...LOL

[kyboy]

I pop in from time to time Andy I havent been on the net much lately at all...Been real busy around the farm..

[yoteguts]

What size nail?

[lynxcat]

30 commons..

[thebeav2]

Are you sure that sterling makes those swivel bodies? I can clearly remember back when i was working as a pipe fitter seeing those things and they were being used as hangers with threaded rod screwed Into them. I seem to remember them being used as fixture hangers. Maybe they just added the J hook.

[lynxcat]

INTERESTING.....

[rk660]

For the "u" part of a nail swivel, you can get long fence staples, and just cut tips off. saves one bending operation

[thebeav2]

Chain links work too.
Rich you get my PM?

[rk660]

yep Gary, just been too busy to get back. On nail swivels, ive been "cheating" on the rivets as i hate making the damn things, and found a thin metric jam nut works well with a standard 6 ga J-hook, and havent had huge problems with grass plugging up

[kyboy]

Sept 23, 2008 7:24:45 GMT -6 @thebeav2 said:

Are you sure that sterling makes those swivel bodies? I can clearly remember back when i was working as a pipe fitter seeing those things and they were being used as hangers with threaded rod screwed Into them. I seem to remember them being used as fixture hangers. Maybe they just added the J hook.

Thats a valed point..Ive seen the type of hangers your talking about befor..Used to hang light fixtures with..

[Clefus]

Sept 22, 2008 22:19:53 GMT -6 kyboy said:

Your gonna put a lot of fellers out of buisiness teaching everyone that Lynx's...LOL

just the crappy (<<<<< this thing seems to edit for me..lol) ones....those are a lot better than a lot of "mod" guy(s) are trying to pass.....

kyboy...you on the yt forum??

[kyboy]

Dont think so? Not sure, What is the "yt" forum? I havent been on the net a whole lot of anywhere lately to be honest..