Anyone know what this is called?

[BurtEggley]

Anyone know what this is called? I have Googled almost every combination and synonym I can think of. It is a clip that holds the chain on a 5 gallon General - US Metal Can (Blitz) - Jerry Can circa 1980's and 1990's before CARB forced EPA to change to plastic caps.

It goes thru the chain link and into about a 1/8" hole.

 

[The Bean]

Architect's scale.


Oh, you mean the metal gizmo...

 

[whateg01]

Not sure what it's called but I would replace with a 1/2" key ring

 

[PCustoms]

Piston Ring Wire Brake Sled - AP-62400

VehicleFiatOE Numbers4166737For prices and availability contact our sales team on 01623 655 265.

www.sdproducts.co.uk

Why does it need to be this specific to hold a chain on a gas can?

 

[Wrench97]

Piston Ring Wire Brake Sled - AP-62400

VehicleFiatOE Numbers4166737For prices and availability contact our sales team on 01623 655 265.

www.sdproducts.co.uk

Why does it need to be this specific to hold a chain on a gas can?

So it doesn't fall off?.........

 

[PCustoms]

So it doesn't fall off?.........

As someone said a simple key ring does that...

 

[cpttuna]

a simple stainless steel key ring also does that

 

[larry_g]

I'd call that about 5 minutes of work with a piece of spring wire and a couple of needle nose pliers.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[BurtEggley]

I was thinking either the Fiat part or some piano wire and needle nose pliers, probably the latter considering that I owned a couple Fiats in years past & I do think that part looks a lot alike but the thickness is much more on the Fiat part. I thought maybe there might be a commercial name for that type fitting. Re: key ring - the hole is in the middle of a steel plate that is part of the can. It has to be something that fits into the hole. A cotter pin would work but there are occasions when one wants to easily pull the cap off so it doesn't scratch paint on a car.

You can see in these photos how it connects.

 

[Mike65]

Hitch pin clip or clevis pin clip.

Koch Industries Zinc Plated Hitch Pin Clip 1.94 in. L Mfr# 4022313 - Ace Hardware

Wire hair pin clips from Koch Industries are yellow zinc plated and are commonly used in farm, lawn & garden and other applications to secure attachments and pins.Find the HITCH PIN CLIP ZP 1.94 at Ace.

www.acehardware.com

 

[PCustoms]

Hitch pin clip or clevis pin clip.

Koch Industries Zinc Plated Hitch Pin Clip 1.94 in. L Mfr# 4022313 - Ace Hardware

Wire hair pin clips from Koch Industries are yellow zinc plated and are commonly used in farm, lawn & garden and other applications to secure attachments and pins.Find the HITCH PIN CLIP ZP 1.94 at Ace.

www.acehardware.com

That's not even close to that the OP posted

 

[Steve W.]

That's not even close to that the OP posted

Neither is the key ring.

.

 

[MOS3522]

Looks like a zinc plated dikfer.

 

[firebirdparts]

I would call that a "spring clip" or "retainer clip" but that is certainly generic.

Once the context is removed, it's pretty hard to dig through the millions of spring clips to buy one, and so I guess there are a lot of them that aren't available separately. no retail outlet would want that job.

 

[WildBill]

I call mine George.

 

[FJ 432]

From an Austrian artist loosely translated entitled "Wife saying no".

 

[four.cycle]

^ I have been sitting here wondering how long it was going to take for someone to suggest it's just a hairpin clip that's saving it until she's married.






(Glad to know I'm not the only one around here whose mind lives in the gutter.)

 

[driftpin]

Looks to me like some hose clip or a wire clip, where the 'X' goes into a small dia. hole and then the hose/wire threads the loop.

 

[DGersic]

Looks like a similar thing to a door panel retaining clip. Auceco makes a gazillion variations on this theme, if it doesn’t need to be exact.




If you do want it to be exact, you can probably bend a few up in less time than it takes to read this post.

 

[Smilodon]

Poked around a bit and these generally seem to be called "wedge clips". The most common reference to ones you could buy are Fiat brake clips (as shown earlier in the thread).

Foreign parts site with Fiat brake part

These guys seem to have a ton of related stuff, but didn't see this specifically.

Pivot Pins Site

 

[BurtEggley]

Thank you all. The links are helping. I made one of piano wire I had but it is too thin and pulls right out too easily. Will have to get some .040" piano wire and try again.

 

[PCustoms]

I was thinking either the Fiat part or some piano wire and needle nose pliers, probably the latter considering that I owned a couple Fiats in years past & I do think that part looks a lot alike but the thickness is much more on the Fiat part. I thought maybe there might be a commercial name for that type fitting. Re: key ring - the hole is in the middle of a steel plate that is part of the can. It has to be something that fits into the hole. A cotter pin would work but there are occasions when one wants to easily pull the cap off so it doesn't scratch paint on a car.

You can see in these photos how it connects.

Now that I see better pictures, how close to the original design do you need to be?

Should be lots of options that would work.

 

[evildky]

Architect's scale.


Oh, you mean the metal gizmo...

We called it a draftsman rule, you can get them in either mechanical or architectural scales.

 

[The Bean]

As an architect myself, it's important to distinguish between architect's and engineer's scale.
1/8, 1/4, 3/16, etc for architect's drawings
1/10, 1/20, 1/30, etc for civil engineer's drawings.
And don't forget my metric versions for both architect's and engineer's scales.
Yes, all are used in drafting (old-school), if your not using CAD.
Remember, contractors, do not scale the drawings with a tape measure; that's why we put dimensions on the drawing. That's also why it's fun sometimes to draw in 3/32"=1'-0" scale.

 

[knightfire83]

Wedge Clip. Similar to: https://www.vickauto.com/parts/brake-wedge-clips-set4-fiat-1242000-x19-sku-05-5309/

 

[jskicet]

Kinda similar to what we used to call a "Jesus clip" possibly called an external hitch pin

 

[jskicet]

Maybe reach out to these folks. Maybe they can point you in the right direction.

https://info.mwcomponents.com/hubfs/PDFs/MW-COMPONENTS/Location%20Specific%20%20PDFs/Western%20Wire/WWP%20Brochure-External%20Hitch%20Pin%20Clips%20012924.pdf

 

[four.cycle]

Call Tacoma Screw in the morning and see if you can email them a photo of the object and somebody might be able to identify it.
eight hundred 562 8192

 

[BurtEggley]

that looks like a winner. I see some already that a little tweak would work. Thank you. And thank you all, every reply is read and appreciated.

 

[Bert_]

Looks like you could just tie a piece of wire through the small hole and back through the large opening in the top of the picture. No reason to spend a bunch of time overthinking it

 

[BurtEggley]

Looks like you could just tie a piece of wire through the small hole and back through the large opening in the top of the picture. No reason to spend a bunch of time overthinking it

yes, wire was there and I cut it off. A small cotter pin works easy too but it would be nice some day to clean the two cans, repaint them and have the hardware match rather than look rigged.

 

[CraigStu]

Looks good to me especially from the manufacturer's point of view. Way faster to push that into position than mess around w/ a key ring type clip.