On Apr 20, 7:29 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?

--

Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
.

You can probably use cage wire clips aka J clips if you put a piece of
wire about 12 or14 ga in the crimp to hold the thinner poultry netting
you are trying to fasten. Or you could use lockwire and lockwire
pliers.