{"id":7585,"date":"2026-03-04T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:52:05","slug":"making-turnbuckle-shackles-to-secure-my-packing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7585","title":{"rendered":"Making Turnbuckle\/Shackles to secure my packing case."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been a little quiet on the modelling front over the last couple of week because I have been fitting digital readouts to my lathe which became a bit more involved but worked out in the end. Needing something to test it out on I had a go at making some turnbuckle\/shackles to secure the packing case to the wagon bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staring with some 1.6mm rod (because I have lots) I drilled a 0.75mm hole 5mm down one and end then turned 3mm off the diameter for a length of 4mm. Then I filed hex flats on the full section and cut off at 5.5m beyond the start of the ‘nut’ This allowed me to reverse the pieces in the chuck, face off the end and repeat the process only this time I drilled right through before turning down 3mm x 4mm off that end giving me these<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turnbuckle Shackles in the making<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I only managed three of them before it was time to go to our arts and crafts group again where I fed some 0.7mm wires through and twisted the ends into loops and added hooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gave me these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turnbuckle Shackles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here they are dangling from the packing case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turnbuckle Shackles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning I have turned another 4 centres and also soldered the gaps in the various links closed including the rings on the packing case itself as a pet hate of min is seeing chains 3 links etc that have open links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am most impressed by the ease of repeatability that the DRO on both carriage and cross slide allows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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