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As someone who rode motorcycles pretty much every day for over 40 years, I can totally understand that cringing feeling when you see someone in summer riding around wearing a t-shirt and jeans and no gloves. Even in 40c heat in Spain I always wore full protective gear. These people are insane, or monumentally stupid, and any career motorcyclist just looks at them with incredulity. It's the difference between getting up and walking away with a few bruises, and spending weeks in A&E.

It's mad but actually that winch looks the right scale when you look at pictures of M35 trucks with winch. The tow shackles are too big. I am going to make some instead of buying

I made some shackles for the IS2

here's the scad code
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module shackle () {
difference () {
union () {
rotate ([0,90,0]) translate ([-1.5,7,-3])cylinder(h = 6, r = 3, $fn=80);
rotate_extrude (angle=45, convexity = 9) translate ([5,1.5,1]) circle (r=1.5, $fn=80);
}
rotate ([0,90,0]) translate ([-1.5,7,-3.5])cylinder(h = 7, r = 1.25, $fn=80);
rotate ([0,0,0]) translate ([-1.5,3,-3]) cube ([ 3 ,10 ,10]);
}

}

shackle () ;

You can play with the code to get smaller shackles by changing the locate and radius on the extrude command. have a play with it and you should be able to print what you need

Alwyn