Wire is versatile, and wire clothes hangers are often used as cheap sources of semi-tough wire, more available than baling wire for all sorts of home projects clothes hanger
. Many do-it-yourself and children's projects use wire hangers as holders of various types, from keeping a brake caliper from hanging by the brake line during auto repair work, to securing a gate on a bird cage. After sanding, wire hangers also find uses as conducting wire for uses clotheshanger
as varied as hot wiring cars to games [1] to test hand steadiness. They are commonly used to gain forcible entry into 20th century automobiles whose locks and entry systems clotheshanger
are not protected from such methods. Hangers have been identified as an implement used for spanking of children or adults, used like a switch, given their ready availability as a household object clothes hanger
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Collecticus magazine (UK) reported (in October 2007) that clothes hangers have now become collectable (especially those with a famous company or event advertised across the front) clothes hanger
. For example, a 1950 Butlins hanger sold for £10.10 in October 2006 within Collecticus.
