Where can I get this hook?

[jdw]

I was putting a swinging crib back together for our imminent second child and the hook snapped when I was tightening the nut (the threaded part iss in the nut in the picture). Has anyone any idea of what this type of hook is called and where I can get one? My wife is starting to panic that we won't have anywhere to put the new baby when it arrives!

Thanks in advance

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• jdw
• 19 May 2013
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[swbjackson]

If it snaps that easily I wouldn't be sticking a child in it.

 

[jdw]

Well it's lasted for a few children so far (we got it second-hand), it was just an over-eagerness on my part when tightening it that caused it to snap!

 

[Mursal]

Well the bottom drawer might do if you are really stuck, obviously don't close it (Health and Safety).

This was the closest I could find, yours looks like an M8, or 8mm bolt (13mm spanner?) and you will have to put it in the vice to shape. If its a 10mm spanner, then probably a M6, or 6mm bolt.

http://bit.ly/19REUWP

Good luck to you both, with everything

 

[Burnerman]

I recently fabricated something similar to this by using a rawlbolt with an eye hook....chucking the expanding part away, obviously.
Easy enough to come by, anyway! The common or garden hooks generally seem to have a spiralled end rather than a threaded one.
John