Cup Hooks

[GUMPY]

1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

They are very useful as decorative ornaments, and, can even give the boater a false sense of security.

Depends on where you are using the anchor.

Out on the Essex rivers they work well in the thick muddy gloop.

[system 4-50]

15 minutes ago, GUMPY said:

Depends on where you are using the anchor.

Out on the Essex rivers they work well in the thick muddy gloop.

strike 2

[cuthound]

7 hours ago, haggis said:

When we shared a boat, one of the owners had a brass cup hook fetish 🙂 I often tried to count how many there were but never got the sae answer twice. I am sure there were well over 100 !

Perhaps one of the owners of that boat could confirm the current number ?

 

Was @Jen-in-Wellies one of the co-owners?

 

[haggis]

7 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

Was @Jen-in-Wellies one of the co-owners?

 

No , she has a long way to go to reach the number we had 😄 

[ditchcrawler]

We have cup hooks but boringly we have cups or mugs hanging on them 

[Rob-M]

I feel inadequate, we only have 4 cup hooks for hanging the porthole bungs on.

[Momac]

No cup hooks at all on my boat . I am just trying to make the average look sensible.

 

[wakey_wake]

I now starting to wonder about my Jubilee clips. I haven't counted them, but there must be more than half a dozen.

 

So far as I'm aware, there have been no Jubilees on the boat ever - not even one. Am I misusing the clips?

[system 4-50]

11 hours ago, wakey_wake said:

I now starting to wonder about my Jubilee clips. I haven't counted them, but there must be more than half a dozen.

 

So far as I'm aware, there have been no Jubilees on the boat ever - not even one. Am I misusing the clips?

Not everyone is aware of the future-forecasting abilities of Jubilee clips.  Examine a reasonably large collection of clips and you will find one size missing.  Examine your boat's equipment and find what uses or could use that missing size.  That is the next piece of your equipment that is going to fail.

[Bee]

Careful!, Cup hooks can lead to cable ties and then you're doomed!

[Jen-in-Wellies]

2 minutes ago, Bee said:

Careful!, Cup hooks can lead to cable ties and then you're doomed!

It's too late for me, but you can still save yourselves!

😛

[ditchcrawler]

1 hour ago, system 4-50 said:

Not everyone is aware of the future-forecasting abilities of Jubilee clips.  Examine a reasonably large collection of clips and you will find one size missing.  Examine your boat's equipment and find what uses or could use that missing size.  That is the next piece of your equipment that is going to fail.

A bit like the 10mm socket , I found mine but couldn't find a 10mm open ended spanner to slide on the bolt head 

[wakey_wake]

5 hours ago, system 4-50 said:

Not everyone is aware of the future-forecasting abilities of Jubilee clips.  Examine a reasonably large collection of clips and you will find one size missing.  Examine your boat's equipment and find what uses or could use that missing size.  That is the next piece of your equipment that is going to fail.

So I was doing right when I got a box set of all the sizes?

Or inviting trouble, that it would be something much bigger (and therefore more B.O.A.£T.y) that fails?

[PrimusStove]

Cups hooks are great  and you can't enough , but has anyone come up with a way to mount a guitar to a sloping wall ?  perhaps using cup hooks  

[Chris Lowe]

5 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

It's too late for me, but you can still save yourselves!

😛

 

Are you totally gone yet Jen, you haven't started sniffing Duck Tape have you?

[wakey_wake]

36 minutes ago, PrimusStove said:

Cups hooks are great  and you can't enough , but has anyone come up with a way to mount a guitar to a sloping wall ?  perhaps using cup hooks  

Sure, you only need one at the top. The slope will take care of resting the guitar gently against the wall.

Now of course if you're talking about tumblehome, rather than a skateboard ramp, then you need the second trick: mount the guitar on the outside, then the slope works in your favour.

 

(from another thread)

4 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Removing the large inside face of the old tank with an angry grinder and cutting disk would be very quick to do. Leave the tank sides in situ.

 

it sounds like I have been using my ankle grinder wrong too.

 

Usually if I want to make the neighbours angry, I use a masonry bit with the hammer drill. About 23:45 works best, I find.

[system 4-50]

1 hour ago, wakey_wake said:

So I was doing right when I got a box set of all the sizes?

Or inviting trouble, that it would be something much bigger (and therefore more B.O.A.£T.y) that fails?

No, just check the box from time to time, you currently have no imminent failures.  Eventually you will find one has flown south for the winter and then you should investigate further.

Note that the same principle applies to olives in old-fashioned compression fitting systems except they don't fly away, they just hide.

[wakey_wake]

5 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

Note that the same principle applies to olives in old-fashioned compression fitting systems except they don't fly away, they just hide.

Oh I've seen them try to pull that trick, but they didn't hide very well. My olives were stoned.

[Ex Brummie]

I just found 2 cup hooks with plastic wall plugs, sellotaped to the polystyrene packing for the Ferrolli water heater I'd just bought, but not until I'd bought a pack of 6mm pan head screws with nuts that I'm sure will be a much better fix than a bodge cup hook solution. The screws hold the unit flat to the wall.

[LadyG]

On 12/04/2026 at 16:07, ditchcrawler said:

Two cup hooks tied back to back with some whipping cord might make a good anchor . I know a chap who thought he could repair a motorbike chain with a paperclip 

Funily enough i was once driving a horsebox of ancient origins when a pedal came detached, we used a paperclip.

[Mike Todd]

4 hours ago, wakey_wake said:

Sure, you only need one at the top. The slope will take care of resting the guitar gently against the wall.

Now of course if you're talking about tumblehome, rather than a skateboard ramp, then you need the second trick: mount the guitar on the outside, then the slope works in your favour.

 

(from another thread)

 

it sounds like I have been using my ankle grinder wrong too.

 

Usually if I want to make the neighbours angry, I use a masonry bit with the hammer drill. About 23:45 works best, I find.

How's your walking going?

[wakey_wake]

1 minute ago, Mike Todd said:

4 hours ago, wakey_wake said:

it sounds like I have been using my ankle grinder wrong too.

How's your walking going?

Once I slipped a disc, it was fine 👍

[Chris Lowe]

@Jen-in-Wellies I had to go find this, Mac tools cup hook bit.

 

 

 

[wakey_wake]

4 minutes ago, Chris Lowe said:

@Jen-in-Wellies I had to go find this, Mac tools cup hook bit.

Looks handy. Did it also help your golf game?

[Chris Lowe]

29 minutes ago, wakey_wake said:

Looks handy. Did it also help your golf game?

Nothing can help that, crazy golf is the best I get