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Old 05-24-2013, 07:14 AM   #10
ThrowingTimber
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If you take a small board or piece of wood. You can drill 3 long screws (to form a triangle). You can then just clamp that into a vice and there you go.

A good way to determine your spacing is to take a 3/0 or 4/0 hook and lay it on the piece of wood and the position where the tine of the hooks would make contact with the screw once embedded (piece of wood flat eye of hook towards the cieling). Also once you get your measurement right you can back the screws out and put rubber tubing over the exposed threads so you dont brutalize your hooks (if you're using 2 inch screws you only drive 1" into the wood and use 1" of rubber to cover exposed threads). The tubing material that is used to run aquarium air pumps works excellent. Placing it in a board or vice takes the "if this thing slips out of my hands my forearm is going to own this hook" feeling. Hope this helps.

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