Retro Fitting Speed Bag Ball-hook Swivels

[ventanakaz]

Bringing back to life Vintage Speed Bag Ball-hook Swivels, From the First Generation Big Ball-hook Swivels to the Second Generation Small Ball-hook Swivels with My Solid Steel Ball and S-hook Assemblies, The first generation ball-hooks had a hollow ball, Mine are Solid Steel and you can feel the difference.

[Dutchman]

Nice work .

[ventanakaz]

Nice work .

In the first picture with the group of swivels, if you look at the one closest to the edge, Now i have seen this swivel though the years but i've never seen a name to it, it's seems to be a very rare swivel and i thought by seeing this swivel sporadically since i joined the forum i thought it was pot metal so i never bought one until one of the baggers sent it to me for me to retro fit with my big ball-hook assembly and it's definitely not pot metal, if fact i loved it so much i told that bagger that the next time i see one i wanted to buy one, he said he'd look out for one for me, and low and behold not even a week went by and he found one that said NOS so i bought it, i'll post pictures of it here so you can take a look at it, it came in a Nicol's round box. i'll post the pictures later when i'm feeling better.

[Dutchman]

I was going to say that it looked like a Nicol's. It's different than most of the ones I've seen, as it isn't two piece. Perhaps a less expensive model, or one of later production.

[ventanakaz]

I was going to say that it looked like a Nicol's. It's different than most of the ones I've seen, as it isn't two piece. Perhaps a less expensive model, or one of later production.

It actually is a two piece, i'll post pictures soon

[ventanakaz]

Dutchman this is it, i really don't know if this is a Nicol's, Maybe it wa their last dich effort, Or maybe someone stuck this swivel in this Nicol's box, it's hard to figure out without having a Nicol's catalog or living in that time period when these were available at the sporting goods stores, Anyway this thing is heavy, built like a tank and taking a closer look at it, it was never used, NOS the ball that came with it is a
Ball-Rope (edit) Now that i think about it, Since this is a Ball-Rope swivel and as you know the Ball-Rope swivels came out before the Ball-Hook swivels.

[ventanakaz]

Dutchman So i forgot i had a conversation on Instagram with another bagger that had the same swivel and he had shown three swivels that he said were Nicol's swivels, one was the same one that i had come across (pictured above) that was NOS and in the round box that came without the rope, He said he had talked to the seller to confirm it was a Nicol's swivel, So it looks like these swivels that i have seen very randomly through the years that have no name stamped on them are Nicol's swivels
Here are the pictures he shared

[Dutchman]

Very nice. The ingenuity of the rope swivel, the slot in the side allowed for the knot in the rope to be "adjusted" without removing the swivel from the platform.

[ventanakaz]

Very nice. The ingenuity of the rope swivel, the slot in the side allowed for the knot in the rope to be "adjusted" without removing the swivel from the platform.

I have two rope swivels, a Moosehead-Whitely and the Nicol's, i gave the oldest Nicol's rope swivel to paranday i don't see him around here anymore.

[Dutchman]

It appears that a lot of what were the regulars have gone elsewhere. See some on FB which is the only other place I'm at in this subject matter