I was really tired of pegboard hooks falling out every time I took a tool off the wall a little too quickly or at the wrong angle. After a little thought into what I could do to fix this, I came up with this quick and easy hack using paper clips. I hope this will be of good use to you and saves you much headache like it did me.
Using a paper clip is the cheapest, quickest, and possibly the easiest way to lock/secure any pegboard hook from falling out.
Most store bought pegboard-hook-locks take up two adjacent holes and are comparably more expensive when compared to paper clips. This hack allows pegboard hooks to be placed from left-to-right right next to each other.
Any type of hook can be locked with paper clips and all this hack requires are:
1. a paper clip that is about the same length as the distance between the pegboard holes
2. a vacant hole beneath the pegboard hook that one is trying to secure
3. some clearance behind the pegboard so paper clip can be inserted into the hole.
Prepare the paper clip by bending the inner lobe out to make a 90 degree angle.
Flare out the inner lobe of the paperclip by bending it outward.
Place the pegboard hook to the desired location.
Hook the larger lobe of the paperclip over the pegboard hook and insert the flared out smaller lobe of the paperclip into the hole below the pegboard hook until it "clicks".
The pegboard hook is locked!
A paper clip has just enough hooking force to prevent the pegboard hook from falling out but not enough to make it a permanent fixture. To adjust the pegboard hook, the paperclip lock can be removed with a pair of pliers.
To increase the locking force of the pegboard hook, two paperclips can be used for one pegboard hook and threaded through the same hole.
24 апр 2021
