As you will only require a smallish amount go stainless steel (Strand not wire rope). It is very popular at the moment due to fencing balconies with minimum obfuscation of the view. Available at the big green shed reasonably priced or at boat chandlery at much higher price.
The reason for using strand rather than rope is that wire rope will stretch and sag, whereas strand will remain taught
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I found by the time I bought all the fittings required from Bunnings to make up the clothes line and probably the tool to crimp the fittings on neatly and securely I was better off buying it on ebay.
I've been using it now for about five years or more on two different vans with no problems.
We use rope with a turn-buckle to take up any slack. The rope is a continuous bit threaded through two small bits of poly pipe that loop over the awning arm.
While I was waiting out Cyclone Debbie in Emerald I was camped near a bloke who decided to make a s/steel clothes line for his awning.
He walked over the road to Bunnings or might have been Mitre 10 (cant remember) and bought all the bits there including a turnbuckle and two D shackles to mount it all up.
I made one by splicing some rope to those canvass flaps with the eylets and the rolled bit that slides into sail track. I just slide each end into the grooves on the anti flap rafters.
-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Sunday 31st of December 2017 12:23:45 PM
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