This piece of hardware is called an eye turnbuckle. Turnbuckles come in many varieties with different ends, but all have a long sleeve with internal screw threads. They allow you to adjust the tension or length of ropes or cables. They can be made of galvanized or stainless steel. Turnbuckles are often used in marine rigging, but can also be used for many other purposes. After researching turnbuckles, I realized that I use them all the time at my summer job where I teach sailing and do boat maintenance, although the ones I use look very different, are much more expensive, and go by a different name. A marine turnbuckle, like the one below, would be used to adjust the tension of the wires that hold up the mast, and allows us to change the wires when they begin to fray (worst job ever).
Katherine Meeks
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