buckle & strap placement body or lid/flap?

[ASAuLTCases]

Hello all, i have just got some buckles for my tool roll case and it occurs to me should i put the buckle on the bottom body with the tongue straps coming down from the flap/lid closer? or the other way round, then i wondered if there is a set rule to this? if so why?

i did a google search that as usual, i end up directed back to Leatherworker and Johanas topic that is great but it is how best to fit them,

maybe it doesn't help not using the correct terminology, so help with that would also be appreciated,

Thanks in advance for any help.

[fredk]

6 of one 1/2 dozen of the other. As for 'rules'; what ever suits you or the construction.

On shoulder/handbags bags its better to have the buckle attached to the bottom then you're not fighting gravity to get the strap up through a buckle, but gravity helps to get the strap down thru the buckle.

I always prefer the buckle strap to be short, on the 'bottom' end of anything.

[ASAuLTCases]

great thanks fredk, that's good to no, i prefer going on gut feeling, but after reading the discussion started by Johane about fitting buckles and straps, it has some good points and debated counterpoints, i will have to keep in mind, more for shoulder and handle buckles and straps that hold the weight and take the friction from motion,so need to be extra strong,  i don't think closing straps and buckles take so much abuse thou?

cheers  

[fredk]

34 minutes ago, ASAuLTCases said:

. . .  i don't think closing straps and buckles take so much abuse thou?  

It depends on their use. What they are required to do. 

On a tool roll where you just want the whole roll not to un-roll, just about any leather will do for the strap.. Generally, on a ladies handbag, lightweight leather can be used as well, but on a dispatch rider's bag where the bag may be bulging over-filled you want a stout leather that will not stretch.

an off course example; the bonnet and boot lid on my 1930 Austin 7 are held closed by leather straps. The belts need to be pulled really tight to hold the panels secure. Sometime prior to me getting the Austin someone had replaced the belts. They used too thin and too stretchy a leather, you could see the wear in each successive hole where the belts had been pulled tighter and the next hole had to be used as the leather stretched. I replaced all the belts with 3.5mm thick from a back-bone area. Very minimal stretch after 15 years of use.

[ASAuLTCases]

i get what you mean fredk, common sense and logically,  i seem to have a vision of car door hinges in leather now you mention the Austin 7 having leather straps? not that i was around, i did have a Morris Oxford estate that i was going to get back on the road when i was about 16 but the floor was rotten so i scrapped it, it was 1981 before i get hung lol.

The old cars and bikes ive had, i would be minted if i had them still, mind you £25 last leg cars was all we used to have and drive for years, probably why insurance companies charge now to change the details,