maintain and no plastic components to crack with age.
When properly fitted, the metal attachment could withstand years of pulling, swinging, and general wear and tear. That’s one reason examples can still be found attached to old galvanized buckets and containers decades after they were made.
The design may look basic by today’s standards, but that was precisely the point.
It was inexpensive, practical, easy to manufacture, and remarkably durable.
A Small Reminder of the Past
Modern manufacturing has replaced many of these fittings with stamped brackets, molded handles, and
