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safety wiring/rewiring control cable turnbuckles

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Robby

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Not sure if this is the place for this question, if not, please move it to the appropriate forum.

Does anyone here have an aircraft that has turnbuckles on some/any of the control cables and the turnbuckles are routinely ( or somewhat regularly ) 'disassembled' and 'reassembled' for any reason ( moving / maintaining the aircraft, removing wings etc. ) ??

If so, I suspect ( and hope ) that you keep the turnbuckles safety wired and if you do, do you simply re-wire them each time they are reassembled or -

Is there some trick or 'neat gadget' or 'little known procedure' that would simplify or eliminate the removal/re-installation of the safety wire over and over ??

In my case there are only two to deal with but every time I look at them, I think , 'there HAS to be a simpler way of doing this repeatedly' !!!!

Thanks in Advance for any idea suggestion !
 
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