1/16 Inch Cable Clamps, 1/16" M3 304 Stainless Steel Wire Rope Cable Clip Clamp, Two Way Wire Rope Clips for 1.5-2.0mm Wire Rope for Holiday Decorations for Outdoors/Indoors - 8 PCS

work well

I use these as position-'stops' on a cable. I need to adjust their position several times a day, and these make it very quick and easy. I am deducting one star because pressing the release cylinder is impossible with gloves on, or with very short fingernails, and because one of the cylinder-springs has failed. I guess the designer didn't consider frequent adjustment, or they could have put a little 'handle' or flange on it, to ease release.

This product is quite clever! Normally when I'm hanging a wire for say, a clothes line or camping item, I use a wire U-clamp with the two tiny nuts. But this is way easier. It's easy to use. You simply feed the wire through the hole in the direction of the arrow, and you're fine. The wire I fed through the hole was frayed, yet it still seemed fairly easy to feed through. And it was easy to release the wire by simply pinching the spring-loaded flange. If you need to wire something up that will need to be removed at the end of summer (or a camping trip) this will definitely be my new go-to widget. Another application for this would be a wire-loop strap. You could wrap it around a thick cord or hose to carry it. All in all, it's a clever invention. The wire doesn't slide through the device until it's pinched. It seems to have a lot of holding power.

Works great for very easy height adjustment.

Easy to use. Just be sure to have good, sharp cutters for braided cable that leaves clean ends

I have been thinking hard on 1) how to use these cable/wire/rope clamps and 2) how to review them. I still haven't figured out how you can effectively use them, how to actually use them. In my photo the clamp will freely slide up the cable/wire. It won't freely slide down the wire, unless you press down the smaller cylinder that sticks up at the top of the clamp, where the wire goes into the top of the clamp. Press that little cylinder down and the clamp slides down the wire until you release the little cylinder. So how are you supposed to use the clamp? There is nowhere to attach anything to the clamp, other than the wire/cable that goes through the center. So how is the clamp going to "suspend" something to keep it from sliding down the wire/cable? There is nothing to attach something to the body of the clamp, you can not hang something from the clamp. We could try putting the clamp below something on the wire, but unless you had a larger hole that the lock could fit in, without being depressed, the item would rest on the small cylinder lock/unlock and it would slide right down to the end of the wire/cable, and off the end if there was no stop at the end of the cable. If you look at all of the photos in the product description, there is one where these clamps would work - the suspended glass shelf with the plants on the shelf. If the holes in the shelf are bigger than the lock button, but smaller than the body of the clamp, the clamps would hold the suspended shelf. In the other photos the clamp is shown above the sign, lights and bird cages, and the clamps would freely slide down - they are not supporting anything that I can see. There is no clear description of how the clamp functions in those circumstances, and I think its only function in the photos is aesthetics. Looking at the photos, and with my trying to figure out how to suspend something with the clamp (and failing), I can not see how these clamps could easily be used to suspend anything, other than the clamp.

Am I missing something? I see how these work well when you slide a SINGLE stand of 1/16 cable through. But in all the images of hanging lamps I don't see how this is doing anything to adjust the length of the hanging cable. It just sits on the wire. Doesn't the wire have to loop around the lamp and back up?? This would mean TWO stands of cable passing through. But these accommodate only a SINGLE strand of cable. The only way I seem them working is to pass the cable through a hole in some other anchor....like a screw eye, or a hole through some metal object...and then use these to pinch the cable, like the U loop fasteners with little screws. With those you can loop around something to hold the cable. The ad seems misleading to me. The video is somewhat useless illustrating any of these being used on pendant lamps. All that being said, where applicable they are certainly easier than the U-loop fasteners where you fumble and drop the nuts! Clever item. PRICEY. You can get a dozen or more other style fasteners for the same price as one single.

After just a few uses, they will fail as the wire is inserted and pops out the internal locking bearings. When you see three little steel balls fall out, you need to toss the part and grab another. Too many have failed for me, searching for another product.