Spile Hooks

[hwstem]

I have gotten 3 dozen metal taps from our old sugar shack, they are the traditional 1884 PATD spiles but they have no hooks where is a good place or website to get them I have tried E-Bay and I keep checking there. Any Ideas would be much appreciated.

[Sugarmaker]

hwstem,
If these are the cast 7/16 spouts. We just had holes in the buckets large enough to go over the spile and did not use hooks. And we did this with the tin spiles also.

Chris C.

[KenWP]

AnY high tensile wire can be bent into hooks. I used the wires for curtains as I had hundreds of them and no other use. My first design was pretty strong untill I figured out that a couple of gallons of sap didn't weigh a ton.

[3rdgen.maple]

Bascoms maple supply google it they have them and not that much money.

[hwstem]

I will look at Bascoms and on here thanks for the replies everyone.