A New Key Ring
Key rings are funny things. They’re so utilitarian that you don’t even notice them most of the time. Yet, they carry some pretty important things. Shouldn’t they be just a bit cooler? While sitting down at Greg’s place earlier checking out the latest updates in the ongoing camera strap project, I decided to replace my boring split-ring key ring with something a bit more interesting: nylon coated aircraft wire connected with a swaged on crimp that just happened to be at hand on the tool bench.
Upside: it’s totally cool. I love the way it feels in hand. The keys hang quite nicely. The nylon coating on the wire is a great finish. Downside: This key ring isn’t coming apart without either a few hundred pounds of linear force or a wire cutter. A screw together connector would be perfect, but there wasn’t one of those on hand. All in all, I think this will do for now.
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Here you go.
Has a screw release, although it probably won't stand up to anything approaching the wildly unrealistic stress required to break your homebrew model.
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Daragh, ah yes, that would be the kind of connector that would make this somewhat more useful long term. :)
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The screwy ones tend to get unscrewed accidently. I used to have one and I went back to the plain metal ring because of that issue.
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