recovery points

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Originally Posted by Silver

found some of those two bolt hooks with a 4500kg W.L.L. marked on the packaging, so bought a couple to go onto my nice new recovery plates.

Nice to have a W.L.L. rather than some other ambiguous statement that may or may not mean the same thing!

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Good Stuff

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Originally Posted by Silver

found some of those two bolt hooks with a 4500kg W.L.L. marked on the packaging, so bought a couple to go onto my nice new recovery plates.

Nice to have a W.L.L. rather than some other ambiguous statement that may or may not mean the same thing!

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Where did you find the hooks?

Tony

Thanx that post was a big help

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Originally Posted by YNOT

Where did you find the hooks?

Tony

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I found them at Autobarn Virginia while chasing up plug leads and plugs, ok ok they were at the other end of the shop :-)

they are T-Max brand, the hook is marked max load 10000lbs, the packaging WLL 4,500kg/10,000 lb, and they claim to be hardened steel.

The packaging says made in Taiwan and shows an address at 55 Brownlee Street Pinkenba (suburb of Brisvegas for those of you who live elsewhere) and a web address www.t-max.com.au

I also bought a couple more 4.75 tonnne bow shackles from the same crowd at the same place. Worse than going to a fishing tackle shop. Bill for leads, plugs two hooks and two shackles was about $150 :-) the shackles are $18 and the hooks $20

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Originally Posted by Silver

I found them at Autobarn Virginia while chasing up plug leads and plugs, ok ok they were at the other end of the shop :-)

they are T-Max brand, the hook is marked max load 10000lbs, the packaging WLL 4,500kg/10,000 lb, and they claim to be hardened steel.

The packaging says made in Taiwan and shows an address at 55 Brownlee Street Pinkenba (suburb of Brisvegas for those of you who live elsewhere) and a web address www.t-max.com.au

I also bought a couple more 4.75 tonnne bow shackles from the same crowd at the same place. Worse than going to a fishing tackle shop. Bill for leads, plugs two hooks and two shackles was about $150 :-) the shackles are $18 and the hooks $20

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That's me then tomorrow - I'll go get another front one for the truck. Thanks mate!!

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Originally Posted by Bigrig

That's me then tomorrow - I'll go get another front one for the truck. Thanks mate!!

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we might see if they are any good in the weekend commencing 28 May? :-)

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Originally Posted by Silver

we might see if they are any good in the weekend commencing 28 May? :-)

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Today I found some of those black recovery hooks that are actually marked 4500kg WLL, which is an improvement on the ones I found at Autobarn, where it was only marked with a WLL on the packaging. This is from a camping shop on Old Gympie Road just opposite Paisley Drive and next to a great fresh fish shop - which is where I was headed. I looked carefully at the name, however that part of the hard drive has perhaps been wiped by the rumbos. The shop has some 4wd drive accessory type stuff and wears an Opposite Lock label or two out the front. I think the shop is pretty new and they are still setting up to a degree.

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Originally Posted by Silver

Today I found some of those black recovery hooks that are actually marked 4500kg WLL, which is an improvement on the ones I found at Autobarn, .

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Supercheap have 4500kg WLL hooks on sale at the moment f0r a touch under $15.

page 2 of pamphlet http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/catalogue-au.aspx

Thanks mate - seems to be a popular item at the moment - everyone is chasing them!!

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Originally Posted by molongmick

Supercheap have 4500kg WLL hooks on sale at the moment f0r a touch under $15.

page 2 of pamphlet http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/catalogue-au.aspx

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yeah, got my bridle from Supercheap, and went back later to get some shackles. They had two, one had a stripped thread out of the box..... doesn't say much for quality control of a rated product, and made me wonder about my bridle a bit. Certainly put me off the hooks, which were also on my list.