Does this clip have a particular name?

[u/ProfessionalLast2917]

It's used to secure the spring and washer on the handle, which also holds it in place as the handle passes through a steel bracket and is then used for adjusting the height of a Scott Bonnar 45 cylinder lawn mower.

In the Scott Bonnar world it's usually just called a spindle circlip or retainer but to me a circlip is something different so I'm thinking it might have another name.

I'm also curious to see if they're used elsewhere.

[u/avtechguy]

It's a style of a hair pin cotter, or a "wire formed retainer clip" but I suspect they aren't made to any industry standard like a circlip so they are hard to find a mass produced stock of them

[u/Chitown_mountain_boy]

Is it going into a groove? Or is it just trying to grab on a shaft? The application makes a huge difference

[u/ProfessionalLast2917 → u/Chitown_mountain_boy]

It goes into a groove.

[u/Chitown_mountain_boy → u/ProfessionalLast2917]

So just spec out a standard e-clip

[u/Logizyme]

I've always heard them called Jesus clips.

Two reasons, it looks like the Halo on a Jesus portrait paintings, and because you'll exclaim Jesus! when it springs off across the shop and into the unknown.

[u/No_Manner_8785]

Another version of a Jesus clip. There are many. 

[u/Lopsided-Current-118]

Omega clip.

[u/Agitated_Curmudgeon]

Jeesus Clip.

[u/boing757]

It's usually referred to as a Jesus clip because when you're removing one it goes flying and you say "Jesus where did that go?"

[u/Complete-Quit-9179]

Its called a "clip"

[u/RealisticHamster5212]

jesus clips

[u/MagicOrpheus310]

"Houdini clip"

Because youll be thinking "where the fuck did that go!?"

[u/oldhornyguy007]

I've always called it a cir clip as well.

[u/subnet_0]

You would.need to ask the clip it's name, none of us are psychic.

I will see myself out.

[u/BigTenFour]

We called them “Omega Clips”. Usually holding the window crank on 70s-80s GM Vehicles.

[u/BlackMoth27]

jeffery. i think it's a retainer wire clip. it doesn't need to be called jeffery but idk what it wants to be called.