Hey so, while walking through the hardware section at Lowes there were a lot of things I'd seen before and a lot I hadn't (which had purposes not to hard to infer) but i came across this little piece of hardware next to the gauged wire and cables and whatnot. The guy who i asked at Lowes said that this thing I'd found is called a wire-cable thimble. After telling me its purpose he added that this is the most useless piece of hardware ever. Evidently it's purpose is to maintain a looped structure in places where a cable has to fold over itself. He said its useless because as soon as the cable gets tension it bends this piece of hardware accordingly and when the tension is released the thimble maintains the new bent form thus falling out of place. Sounds frustrating but now I know
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