… afternoon looking for my special wall anchors. I’ve no idea where they might be and I’ve run out of places to look.
These are special wall anchors because they don’t have a standard bolt or a piece of threaded rod in them, but a bolt with an eye on the end and they are designed for fastening ropes and that kind of thing.
I’m not even sure that I have any, but I did at one time have one because it’s in the wall with one of the guy wires for the wind turbine fastened to it. However, I can’t possible believe that I only ever bought one of them. I must have at least another four lurking around somewhere. And I need one to use for the second guy wire of the wind turbine – one of the reasons why I’ve put up the scaffolding.
Mind you, in my quest for the wall anchors with eyes, I’ve found tons of stuff that I had lost (like a load of red wire terminals), stuff that I’ve spent ages looking for in the recent past (like one of the missing black jump leads), and stuff that I had forgotten that I had, like a toolbox full of the tools out of the Passat. And many more besides.
I’ve been tidying up too, and how, and repaired some shelves that I had built years and were about to collapse (it’s amazing how much my technique has improved). I’ve also ended u tidying all of the keeklamp fittings and sorted them out into sizes. I’ve also sorted out all of the ancillary fittings inclusing the turnbuckles and while most of them were size M12, I found an old one that was an M10.
And that gave me an idea.
I found a M10 wall anchor and took out the threaded rod, leving me with just the shaft. Then I dismantled the M10 turnbuckle and tried to fit the end with the right-hand thread into the empty shaft of the wall anchor. And much to my surprise, not only is it the same thread, it actually is just about long enough to reach down for the splitter.
So now, about 15 minutes to knocking-off, I have my special Wall anchor. It’s not an eye but a hook which is not as good as an eye, but it’s the best that I can do and it might even work. I can fit that tomorrow and that will be the first job done, I hope.
Mind you, I’m impressed about all of the tidying up. I’ve not seen that part of the barn looking quite like this before.
