residential swing hardwares

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residential swing hardwares
for a project i need to specify hardware for a residential indoor swing. please guide me with regards to the kind of hardware i need to call out that would connect the swing to the structure
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how strong would you make it for your child? how heavy is the person that will use it? osha asks for a safety factor of 10 for lifting personnel.
richard a. cornelius, p.e.
  build it for a child,no a group of kids.
a kid can bust a rock.if you design with this in mind a 400lb fat man will be no problem.
37ed, you got it right. my kids tested a tonka ready mix truck. they saw an ad that the tonka people drove a real truck off a cliff and threw the toy truck off, too. they threw their truck off a 60 ft. high bridge to the rock below. then were upset when the plastic truck broke.
go to a couple of "private' i.e. expensive, school playgrounds and measure the fittings. they will have a strength about 10-15 times what they need.
richard a. cornelius, p.e.
consider strength but don't ignore durability.  from childhood experience--man, that's been a while--whatever you use needs to contain a bearing surface that's intended to be used in this or some similar application.  don't just put the end link of a chain in a u-bolt no matter how big they are.  sooner or later it will fail and by default, there will be someone in the swing when it does.  get a connector with a bearing in it that's intended to allow motion with minimal friction and wear.
db
deja moo:  i've heard that bs before.