Imagine you have a round pen panel. But instead of connecting it to other panels to make a pen, you want to attach it to a solid wall. I have done this two ways. Now I want to find one of those two ways and I can’t, that’s where I hope you can help me!
One way is to attach a specific type of hardware, often used for swinging gates, that has a male and female side. If you face them both the same direction, you could pick up the panel and hang it on the fasteners, but if you have sneaky animals, it’s best to have them going in opposite directions. This is what I may end up having to get because of my inability to find the other thing.
The other thing is much simpler, and can be used when you don’t need to swing a panel or gate. It’s just a band of metal that is shaped in a semi-circle to go around the panel. On either side of the semi-circle it’s flat with a hole in each side for a screw. I thought they were called panel clamps or pipe clamps but I have used those names and gotten nowhere. And I’m not finding them in the pipe or fencing area of the store, but I have not been to a good hardware store yet. I just think it’s funny that I can’t find a picture of what I’m talking about online, seems like the simplest and most logical way to attach a pipe to a flat surface. Are plumbing pipes not attached to walls sometimes? I realize that my panels, though on the delicate side, are probably wider gauge than normal house pipes. But still! So what the heck is it called?
