Twisting wire

[JohnD]

I have a garden incinerator cage, a 4-sided thing made of rectangular steel mesh panels with a steel rod frame to each. It has metal clips to hold the verticals tother, but these have rusted and broken. I was thinking I could repair it by twisting wire round the uprights of the frames, however a thin galvanised wire would quickly lose its coating due to the heat, then rust away.

a metal coat-hanger is thick enough, but I don't see how I can twist it round tightly enough.

Maybe I could use a bit of copper wire? but I don't know if it would stand up to the heat?

Any suggestions?

 

[Stivino]

Something like this maybe?
http://tinyurl.com/y5me3zx

 

[JohnD]

good idea but I don't want to spend £20.

will look on fleabay and see if I can buy in small quantity

 

[wotan]

I have a garden incinerator cage, a 4-sided thing made of rectangular steel mesh panels with a steel rod frame to each. It has metal clips to hold the verticals tother, but these have rusted and broken. I was thinking I could repair it by twisting wire round the uprights of the frames, however a thin galvanised wire would quickly lose its coating due to the heat, then rust away.

a metal coat-hanger is thick enough, but I don't see how I can twist it round tightly enough.

Maybe I could use a bit of copper wire? but I don't know if it would stand up to the heat?

Any suggestions?

A good quality pair of pliers would easily cut and twist coathanger wire, there are enough of them about to last a lifetime.

Wotan

 

[noseall]

A good quality pair of pliers would easily cut and twist coathanger wire, there are enough of them about to last a lifetime.

Wotan

I have not yet come across a coathanger that lasts a lifetime.

Mind you, i have not yet lived a lifetime.

How long's a lifetime anyhoo?

 

[Thermo]

jubilee clips

 

[JohnD]

nice idea, but surely they are usually galvanised, which will burn off in the bonfire

 

[Deluks]

Whatever you use will deteriorate in time, only takes a few seconds to twist another bit of wire round. You could use something that's been sprayed with heatproof paint? Personally I'd save the money and go short on coat hangers.

 

[Hitachimad]

Some 310 stainless wire would be ideal... but in the absense of some of that, id use a few twists of the coathanger as suggested. Leave it long, twist with some locking pliers than cut off the excess.
Its only an incinerator, i guess it doesnt need to look special

 

[Deluks]

Its only an incinerator, i guess it doesnt need to look special

Folk get very attached to their incinerators, I borrowed one off my gardener mate, he said "look after it, it has sentimental value"
He wasn't even joking, he'd inherited it from one of his dead customers

 

[mattylad]

Use a coathanger wire & keep a spare coathanger just to replace this wire in a couple of years time

 

[foxhole]

For rapid twisting of wire I poke the ends into my cordless drill and run at low speed.

 

[joe-90]

For rapid twisting of wire I poke the ends into my cordless drill and run at low speed.

Round and round the garden?

 

[Thermo]

like a teddy bear?