On Apr 20, 6:29 pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
Please forgive me for posting on topic, I promise not to do it
again.

Today I had a service call, to a cat shelter. There is an outdor
cat run, probably 15 by 15 feet. The walls and "roof" such as it
is are rolled chicken wire.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...cken_wire.jpg/...

And these rolled out chicken wire are connected together by
literally many hundreds of nylon tie straps.
http://www2.gpmd.com/image/g/gwse2036.jpg

But, with the sunlight, the nylon gets brittle and breaks. This
is a constant struggle, to keep put on new tiestraps. And a LOT
of labor. I can get UV resistant black tiestraps at my wholesale
parts house. But, it seems like there should be a metal crimp, or
something to hold the chicken wire together. What is there, for
this purpose?

Your second image posted to inaccessible link so couldn't tell what
you wanted to show, but...

Typically, one strings chicken wire from one post to the next and ties
it w/ wire at the post if metal or staples it if wood. Then,
normally, if there's a need for a splice, it's done at a post or if
must be done in between, use heavy (like #10) wire and wrap it around
it is one way or clip back the mesh for a couple inches on each piece
and individually splice.

The top and bottom should be strung along a heavier tension wire. For
a top, same sort of thing -- use a cross-web of heavier wire as the
supporting mechanism and tie it to that.