Looking for thread clamps / grippers to hold the ropes in serving machine

[Y.T.]

Hi, I am looking for some thread clamps / grippers of a kind as on attached pictures. I am so far not able to find anything even close on Amazon or elsewhere. This is to hold the ropes in serving machine. The crocodile clamps provided with the machine do not hold the thread properly. Please help!

 

[Thanasis]

Hi. I'm not familiar with rope serving machine but what comes in my mind, is something like a tiny chuck as in the photo.
Thx

 

[Y.T.]

Thanks, Thanasis. Serving machine helps to wind a thin thread around a rope. See pictures below. Fortunately and accidentally an idea came to me that I can use electrical wire connectors for my purpose. These can clamp a rope or hooks. The shafts are a steel wire salvaged from a coat hanger, the type they give at dry cleaning shops.

 

[Don Case]

YT, how do you deal with excess length of rope with your machine? Like serving the center of a shroud.

 

[Y.T.]

how do you deal with excess length of rope

The shafts are hollow. Excess rope goes through shaft and being wound on the rotation handles.

 

[Don Case]

Ah, I thought the coat hanger wire was the shaft. My mistake. I noticed that you have little hooks in your wire connecters. Have you tried clamping the rope directly in the wire connecters?

 

[Y.T.]

Yes. It works well.

 

[Pathfinder65]

Wow a neat fix to your problem. I'm going to try your method, I also found that the alligator clips didn't work for what I wanted to do.

Jan

 

[bill36]

Hi, I am looking for some thread clamps / grippers of a kind as on attached pictures. I am so far not able to find anything even close on Amazon or elsewhere. This is to hold the ropes in serving machine. The crocodile clamps provided with the machine do not hold the thread properly. Please help!

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1. Get some SMALL alligator clamps
2. Grind off the teeth.
3. Solder on 2 small flat plates where you ground off the teeth.
4. All the lines are held between the 2 plated.
5. Simple, cheap, infinitely flexible, etc.

 

[Y.T.]

1. Get some SMALL alligator clamps

This design will not hold the rope tight. Even the new alligator clamp with the sharp tooth is not able to hold the rope or a wire hook . My machine came with alligator clamps which I cannot use.

 

[Y.T.]

I found a perfect solution. It holds any thread size reliably.

While browsing for it I found another useful tool.

 

[Don Case]

Is the first one hollow, so you can still coil up the excess thread? Do you have a link?

What is the second one?

 

[Y.T.]

No, none of them hollow. The links are below:

https://www.amazon.ca/Koh-I-Noor-Ruling-Drawing-Black-Handle/dp/B00IDAF3V0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2USC6AUXAWY7M&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eP69sXasiqh3g7IoaAdVijeHIUFVgzeZzsnzuj9Is6-EjMFpWfvXCz5qiuskor8dd99e2tQU_1Zn_ebSnd3Cs762KqMZFDXu_QL5JBXrADvmsKq2ircICd5Pq-JbsD7b45FMXREmR-e-ZdN3QJopVzpN2pDNtZzS1jojXxs_LneVLgYp25gna01BfUW5tPwIqIFTuHvvDUFgk8TpjTBgMffgaFq8ryUZAsxMbnwLnXzhXIVBXr79G-0mW-7Md_b1nNl7FMyg0gYvoR-ZfRTW1MmhRlABAeqL2tTcMjuXjCk.zHpghG54FPAfQk-Vt_On-ykCN4x0BSgs565eM_QFNQM&dib_tag=se&keywords=KOH-I-NOOR+06503B0000OP+Pen+for+Drawing+Straight&qid=1710696209&s=office&sprefix=koh-i-noor+06503b0000op+pen+for+drawing+straight%2Coffice-products%2C167&sr=1-1

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[Masters Mate]

Thanks, Thanasis. Serving machine helps to wind a thin thread around a rope. See pictures below. Fortunately and accidentally an idea came to me that I can use electrical wire connectors for my purpose. These can clamp a rope or hooks. The shafts are a steel wire salvaged from a coat hanger, the type they give at dry cleaning shops.


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Great use of non-shipbuilding materials. I love the idea of using these electrical fittings. I have a lot of them in a box somewhere!