Zephyr Mini Line Lock Tent Guyline Cord Tensioners (Set of 10)

I bought these tensioners to replace some larger, heavier ones for my hammock tarp. They are easy to use and do the job at tightening my lines and holding them tight. I am taking one star off the review because two of the tensioners are smaller than the rest and are unusable with the line diameter that I have.

As others have mentioned, the holes are tiny despite the manufacturer claiming usage of lines up to 3mm. I used a 1.8mm guy line and could not get it to pass without shredding and pushing back the sheathing. Burning and melting the line end made it too big to pass the holes. Since I had no desire to enlarge the holes with a drill, I simply melted off the line ends the rolled it to a point with a set of pliers. Functionally, works great. They are identical to the ones found on Small tents made by One Tigris.

These are great, perhaps the best I have ever used. I ordered these along with some micro (1.8mm) guyline cord to use on my lightweight backpacking tent. While I have not had a chance to put them on my tent, I have experimented with them and they function wonderfully. I am very happy with the performance.This is definitely a 5 star product, however I ordered a pack of ten but received only eight—I am missing two. What’s up with that?Update:Well that was fast. Zephyr responded to me with the following,"We apologize for missing a couple line locks in your shipment. Moving forward, we will need to pay a bit closer attention to package quantities before shipping.We are sending you a free set of 10 as a customer courtesy. Your order will be shipping tomorrow, and will be delivered in 2-4 business days. Tracking will be emailed to you through Amazon's usual channel."I happily changed my 3 star rating to a 5.Thank you

Use these and 1.8 mm cord to make excellent lightweight, reflective guylines. Most tents come with 4 guylines and you usually need 5-7 minimum. I purchased these and 20 m of Paracord Planet 1.8 mm reflective guyline cord (go with a bright color- orange, yellow so it is visable in the day also) and cut into 6 ft 5 in segments to make ten cords ( to make 8 just cut cord in half 3 times). I use a lighter outside (fumes, hot melted plastic until it hardens) to melt the cut, frayed cord into a hard end.Besides replacing my guylines, I always replace a new tent"s stakes with MSR mini Groundhogs for the body and Groundhogs for the lines.Photo 1- of 5 homemade guylines and 9 stakes I carry with my Marmot Tungsten 1 person tent.Photo 2- Marmot Tungsten 1p with homemade reflective guylines (made with zephyrs) attached.

The piece is solid but one issue. I was planning on using it with 3mm guy lines as advertised. The thickest cordage they will accept is 2.5mm and it's a tight squeeze. Luckily I had some of that lying around as well. 3 stars due to this issue.

Line lock is very small, easy to adjust and holds well on 2.5 mm cord. tested at 25 pounds load and tugged to about 30 pounds. less one star because I only received nine not ten.

These things are awesome I couldn't find anything else to use on my hammock tarp guylines. I wanted use really thin dyneema type line. Which doesn't work well with knots. But this works great with line slightly under 1mm as I measured and they weigh almost nothing. This gives me the lightest guylines without resorting to bringing fishing line. I'm going to order some more to tie up and hand out to people who don't know how to tie knots or bring line on my next camping trip.

Works great for me. Very fast and easy to adjust. As noted in another review, hole in base is rather small and feeding the line through it somewhat frustrating. Only has to do that once for install though. Press terminated burned end with pliers to reduce its size for easier feed through. Maybe drilling out the hole could work. Am buying more of them to retrofit all lines.