How does a turnbuckle work? | Fastener Engineering

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A turnbuckle, also known as a bottlescrew, is a device consisting of two threaded eye bolts with opposite handed threads that are screwed into each end of a frame. When the central frame rotators, the eye bolts are prevented from doing so because the two bolts have opposite handed threads. This causes the bolts to simultaneously move inwards or outwards.(…)

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