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Like stone being worn away by dripping water, your snap hooks will slowly be ground down. The metal grommet of your flag grinds against the snap hook. Be sure to keep up on it. Your flagpole hooks are a core component of your flagpole hardware. Inspect your snap hooks every time you change your flag. If you are paying to ship an order anyway, add one or two inexpensive snap hooks. Put them in a drawer. When they go, they are like shoelaces. You need one. Flagpole hanging clips are good to have on hand. Check your halyard

Flag supplies

Solid Brass Flag Snap Hooks: These are swivel flag clips.

Stainless Steel Flagpole Snap Hooks

Flagpole snap hook covers stop clanging flag hooks. I recently got an order from a guy whose neighbor was complaining about the snap hooks, "flag rings", banging on the pole

Double Ender Brass Snap Hook

Thumb Lever Snap Hook

It is a much lighter weight snap hook than the brass ones above. The importer was not able to tell us what kind of metal it is. It is not steel because a magnet does not attract it.

A low cost solution when you need a lot of snap hooks for 3x5' or smaller flags. Also a solution for those who are bothered by metal snap hooks clanging on poles.

For up to 3x5' flag size

                                               Locking EXTRA LARGE Nylon Snap Hook

                                                               For up to 5x8' flag size

Rubber Coated Brass Snap Hook

Stainless Steel Spring Clips

Flag Rings For Shellbacks

Lard and Raw Eggs: Kissing the belly of the Royal Baby

One has to love our Navy! They sail the seven seas and go where our leaders point them. They will sail under the polar ice cap or land supersonic aircraft on a pitching carrier deck in the dark. And when they cross that equator they use all their seamanship and skill to guide their uninitiated shipmates through a gauntlet of the worst concoction of slime that the mind of man can devise. Hail Shellbacks!

Brass Butterfly Snap Hook for Shellbacks

This is the flag clip, for Shellbacks, mariners of a noble and an ancient order.

Do NOT use them for your grommeted flags.

Butterfly snap hooks are a specialty item only for specific nautical purposes.  They are not for use with snap hook covers

 Welcome Shellbacks!!

 Ye band of brothers and sisters who have endured the sea and crossed the equator.

Cross the equator and you may claim the rank of Shellback.

But first, you must be initiated.

ZipKlipTM Flag Fasteners

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#2ZK $15.95 PER PAIR Includes two nylon fasteners, two set screws and two stainless steel flag clips

I've had a request from a boater for this kind of an item so here it is.

These nylon flag fastener clips are sold only two per set and come complete with stainless steel spring clips. The halyard is held firmly in place with a nylon set screw

How to rig a snap hook   How To Re-rope a flagpole   How to install a flagpole

A handy tip when reroping your flagpole

Don't use knots to attach your flag clips. Over time, the knots get so tight they are a real problem to undo if you need to change the snap hook or adjust the distance between them. Your halyard through the pole should be tied to itself forming one continuous loop. Don't use the flag to complete the loop. If you do, and something silly happens, I have seen people wind up with one end of the rope up top on the pole, the other down below, and no way to pull the rope down without getting to the top of the pole. How To Re-rope a flagpole You don't make a flagpole clip knot, you just loop the halyard over the snap hook. Stringing a flagpole includes these helpful steps:

How to use a snap hook cover? Insert the snap hook into the cover snap hook cover.....

.....in such a way that you force the eye of the snap hook through the small opening of the cover.

Refer to the diagram above. Loop your halyard through the snap hook just as you would if there were no snap hook cover.

To attach a flag, push back the snap hook cover, lower the spring gate with your thumb....

....and hook your snap hook through your grommet.

Now you have a nice sealed snap hook that won't clang on your pole

Flag Poles (Aluminum)

Flag Poles (Fiberglass)

It you see the halyard showing signs of wear, you are playing Russian roulette. As long as the old worn halyard is still in your pole, you can use it to pull a new halyard up through the pulley. If you let it go too long and it breaks.. well, call your local bucket truck guy and ask him how much he charges per hour.

Now here is a case in point. I just changed the flag on my own 40' pole. In doing so I followed my own advice and checked the halyard. The halyard on the bottom snap hook still looked great. There is just some minor abrasion in seen in the left hand photo. But take a look at the problem I found up top.......

See how mashed and ground up the halyard is at the top snap hook from grinding against the pulley. This needs to be replaced or I'll be the guy on the phone asking the bucket truck guy what he charges per hour. If you have a one piece pole it just is not worth playing chicken with your halyard. This halyard will break. The only question is when. There is no answer to the question as to how long any halyard will last. Just keep an eye on it. How To Re-rope a flagpole Keep an eye on your flag parts just as you would on anything else that needs to be maintained. Flagpole rope is guaranteed to wear out. Keep up on it.

Helpful Hint: Halyard wears particularly hard where the snap hooks are attached. Move the position of your snap hooks  every so often to extend the life of your flagpole rope.

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