YQL Outdoor Lights Hanging Kit,Globe String Lights Suspension Kit,82ft Black Vinyl-Coated 304 Stainless Steel Cable,String Light Guide Wire,Turnbuckle Wire Rope Tension with Hooks

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  I noticed many older reviews mention weak screws, turnbuckles that lacked the ability to pull due to sloppy threads, and more.I didn't find any of those problems. In fact, I was happy to see all stainless hardware and found it worked well. There were only two problems with my kit, one of which I could have prevented, one is I'd call a problem with the parts.The twist-ties were the weakest link. About a dozen of them had the vinyl cover separate from the wire as I twisted them (for the first time) around the light string I was hanging. But there are a LOT of them in the kit so I didn't mind.The screws, turnbuckles, carabiners (spring clips), fastening loops and anchor loops all held up well. Except for one incident.One of my 3 runs (all about 20 feet / 7 meters) split where the wire coat separated from the wire. Since the wire coat is pretty thick, even when screwed down hard (or perhaps TOO hard) the bight (loop fasteners) lost its bite and my closed end came undone. I was able to fix this rather easily because I still had sufficient slack to make a new bight.Some hanging tricks I learned:First some terminology... I'm referring to the following parts by these names;turnbuckle (the long piece with an eye on one side and a hook on the other) - open it nearly fully.anchor (the U shaped piece that is held with two screws to the anchor point - e.g. tree, decking, etc),bight - a loop in the end of the wire cablebight clip - a small piece with two small holes that the cable can pass thru, and two small screw that are used to tighten the wire into the clip. The bight clip is used to make a bight in the wire.carabiner - an O shaped closed loop with a spring loaded "gate" or opening. The large end is attached to the anchor, the smaller end is where the "bight" goes.1. Fasten the anchors first and make sure they are fully snug.2. Create a loop through the eye of a fully extended turnbuckle and hook it into the anchor.3. Stretch the wire to its other anchor point4. Clip in a carabiner (spring fastener) to the anchor.5. Cut the wire leaving about a foot (10 cm) of slack - enough to make a loop around the carabiner and back through the bight clip and then some. Do not tighten the bight clip screws.6. Grasp the free end of the cable with pliers (vice grips) and begin pulling.7. When nearly all the slack is gone, tighten down the bight screw on the long side of the cable about an inch (2cm) away from the carabiner.8. Pull more firmly and then tighten the other side of the bight clip. You should leave a loop that isn't closed around the small end of the carabiner9. Give the whole thing a small tug.10. Rotate the turnbuckle to remove any obvious slack, but don't overdo it. There will be more slack/sag once the lights are hung, and perhaps more over time.11. Hang your lights using the twist ties as described in the instructions.12. Use the turnbuckle to remove remaining slack - but don't expect there to be no sag. In fact, if you end up with a fully shortened turn buckle and there is still too much sag, you'll need to loosen the turnbuckle and go back to the other end of the cable and remove more slack.13. Once all looks good, trim off all but the last 1/2 inch (1cm) of cable... BUT NOT BEFORE HAND... you may need to do more stretching!If you don't expect to ever take down the wire cable, you don't need to use the carabiner - the slack removal would occur around the anchor.The only problem I ran into was that the bight around the eye of the carabiner broke free. This is because the insulation separated from the wire.I did a little digging, too, and I'm not convinced you can get all the parts for a significantly better price - the only way you might gain some savings is by buying only exactly what you need - in my case I'm glad to have some extra bight clips, anchors, turnbuckles and anchors.Oh, by the way, if one end of your wire is a tree... I'd suggest you leave plenty of slack, otherwise wind will definitely break something!

I’m ignorant and thought this would take me about a half hour to set up. WRONG. This took me an entire Sunday afternoon in the hot July sun to knock out. But! It’s done and my patio is beautiful. There’s no “right” or “wrong” way to set this up — they include many different hanging hardware types in the kit. I used the U-rings on the tree and house... I then used the carabiner clips on the tree side and the self-tightening hooks on the house side to create tension on the line. The most painful part was putting all the twist ties on the lights. However, I’m glad it’s done and now I get to sit back and enjoy my patio whenever it decides not to be over 100 degrees here in the Midwest.

For then last two years we had about 150' of 'commercial grade' string lights from the big box membership club. The problem was, we had three large open areas (50' across each, approx.). We originally hung our lights with no wire. Within weeks they started sagging. The looked "okay", but in some areas taller people had to duck under them and it put the bulbs at eye level and did not create a good atmosphere.We saw a restaurant that had these lights and used wire rope.I found this kit on Amazon and compared the price of the components to the big box hardware stores.The price of the wire rope alone ($.40') was going to be more than this total kit. Plus, our local store that had the vinyl wrapped wire rope wanted $.79'!!!!!! Lastly, the clips for the wire in this kit are much more simple to use and attractive when compared to what they offer locally in the stores.We ordered this kit and had it installed within two hours. Would have been faster but we hung them at 10' and had to use ladders.They look so much better now and the cost of the kit was less than half the price of a single strand of lights.We actually had a lot of hardware left over. But at this price, you can't beat it.Very happy!

Just used this to install 96ft of decorate string lights. This kit is very handy and a must have when hanging string lights. The various hooks and turnbuckles gave me options for mounting to the eave of the house, a tree, and a final anchor point on my children's play set. The carabineers provide an easy way to take down the lights in case of maintenance. Hopefully there are no issues for years to come.I found it easiest to plan the way I wanted the lights. I then located mounting points and used a hook and turnbuckle on one end and a hook and carabiner on the opposite end. I created a 6 point zig zag pattern. Instead of running the cable the entire length I split it into 5 separate lines. This allowed me to tension each section and not have too much weight pulling down on the entire wire. After installing each line I used the included heavy duty twist ties to hang the lights before moving on to the next section.

I was very skeptical about this product when it arrived. I was expecting a much wider diameter steel core and thought "this is going to break in 5 minutes". But I've now put up 3 lengths, the longest of which is around 90 feet and I'm stunned at the ease of which I got it tight enough to support the string lights, which are heavy commercial grade. I think this is partly due to the light weight nature of the cable. There's loads of fixing options in the kit, far more than I needed, which gave me ample choices to set up my system. I'd have preferred plastic tie wraps over the coated metal ones but that's a minor point. Love this product and wouldn't think twice about buying it again.