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Default Chicken Wire Fasteners

Can you close the open end with the pliers they show?

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"Charlie Bress" wrote in message
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: Try something like these
: http://www.westernwireprod.com/fastc.../hogrings.html
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: Charlie
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: "Stormin Mormon" wrote in
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: Please forgive me for posting on topic, I promise not to do
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: 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.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...icken_wire.jpg
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: 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
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: 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?
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: Christopher A. Young
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