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Happy Every Holiday,
You can use stainless, bronze, or galvanized thimbles. The only limitation is that the thimble fits into the turnbuckle jaws, and most modern turnbuckles have narrow jaws, which means you need solid bronze thimbles if you hope to have service (thus a thicker thimble), especially on 7x7, which is bigger than the 1x19 that the turnbuckles are designed around. I hope that makes some sense. Anyway, the extra 1/16" or so is to make room for the service. Blue Wave has the widest jaws that I know of in stainless.
The square bottom is a very important, very good thing. It makes for a stronger thimble, and one that you can serve/seize up to cleanly.
Fair Leads,
Brion Toss
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