While at the 2019 National Hardware Show In Las Vegas, we ran across a company called Heroclip ®. Their motto is– Hang Your Stuff, Free Your HandsTM. They offered me 3 of their carabiner design multi-clips (Medium, Small, Mini) to give them a shot in the gardening environment.
Have you ever wished to hang a gardening tool bag, Tub Trug, pail, watering can, hose, basket, or any number of gardening or landscaping executes so that you can work on your task without needing to keep these items while you’re utilizing another tool? Wouldn’t it be good to be able to hang your tool off a shelf, a door manage, a rack, a tree or shrub branch?
Now you can with the Heroclip ®. Having an articulated hook with a connected clip solves all these challenges and a lot more.
SPECS
Products: All Heroclips ® are made from aircraft grade anodized aluminum, nickel plated high carbon steel rivets, a stainless-steel gate, and a nylon composite mix for the swivel arm.
Mini Heroclips ®
. Closed: 1-7/8″ x 2-1/4″.
Open: 1-7/8 “x 4-1/4″.
Weight: 0.7 oz.
Holds: 40 lbs.
Little Heroclip ®.
Closed: 2-1/3″ x 3”.
Open: 2-1/3 “x 5-1/5″.
Weight: 1.1 oz.
Holds: 50 pounds.
Medium Heroclip ®.
Closed: 3″ x 3-3/4”.
Open: 3 “x 7-1/4”
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Weight: 2 oz.
Holds: 60 pounds. PACKAGING. All the Heroclips ® come packaged on a slick pegboard-ready placard. It is printed on both sides and the clips are protected with cable television ties. It’s a good, neat plan with a lot of ideas for how to use the clips marked on the back of the card.
HOW the Heroclip WORKS.
The folks at Heroclip ® created a clever device that they call the Hybrid Gear Clip. It’s basically the mix of a carabiner (an elegant name for a piece of metal formed into a loop with a spring retention bar called a “gate”) with a 3600 swivel hook.
By pressing eviction towards the inside of the carabiner, the external hook can be rotated 900 far from the carabiner and swung up on the nylon composite swivel bar to be placed as the hook. To help in its flexibility, the hook can be turned 3600 to accommodate practically any hanging position, while the carabiner (with the spring gate closed) stays completely attached to whatever it is clipped to.
Essentially, what you have here is a carabiner with a hook that rotates and rotates back and forth parallel to the carabiner. If you don’t open the swivel hook, you have a standard carabiner that can be utilized to connect gear completely (for example, to clip a water bottle to a knapsack).
The tip (or “beak” as Heroclip ® calls it) of the hook has a rubber-like substance that’s made to “grip almost any surface”. And the body of the swivel is made to move up and down through an 1800 arc on the back of the carabiner.
Rustproof and Corrosion-Resistant.
All the rivets that hold the system together are made from high carbon steel with a nickel plating, the hook and carabiner systems are made from airplane grade anodized aluminum, the swivel is made from a nylon composite mix, and eviction is made from stainless steel. All the components make the unit deterioration resistant. But be careful using it around fertilizers as these can be really corrosive and harm the Heroclip ® if it’s exposed to those compounds.