Challenge - Find a hook

Hi guys:

Find me a hook similar to **broken link removed**

which will fit into a 1/2" ID hole of a lifting eye bolt that is made from 1/4" stock.

US purchase would even be better.

just go to any rigging store and buy one....

I would put a longer shackle with the largest bolt that will fit the eye (7/16?). Then use a regular hook or chain on the shackle. It may be hard to find a decent hook for that small of a hole.

John

For our friends who may not be familiar with the term, here is a link to shackle: https://www.1st-chainsupply.com/attachments/misc/shackles.htm?gclid=CKLR8eDRhrgCFWNp7Aod7FAAqA

John:

I appreciate the comment. For all the other ones, I will be using those shackles. They will be guy "wires". Non-conductive.

This one is about 2.5 feet away from a 30' high roof. I can't easily get to it. I can from the roof, but I still cant reach it with my hands. Grippers, yes.

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Point is, Hooks and lifting eyes seem to go together. Equipment that I've seen lifting eyes on, have just that, a forged eye bolt, so does my application.

I want a hook that fits. Nobody has hooks with the dimensions that I need. I have a donut. 1/2" ID, 1"OD, 1/4" thick, round cross-section. I need a hook that fits.

Can't just try em at the local hardware store.

Help still needed.

Can't just try em at the local hardware store.

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Why not? Take a mockup/replica of the eye/donut with you.

KISS, in the years of working in industry, these small 'eyes' like your describing are always used with a shackle. An open style hook like you showed would not have near the strength compared to the eye. Most true lifting eyes have a much bigger hole in them so a hook of sufficient cross section can be used with them.