Hardware

     Span Shade Knuckle System

•        A revolutionary system designed by Eric Moonen of Abacus Shade Structures as used in Abacus Span Shades.
  • Highly modular to easily fit together.
  • Fully engineered
  • Made from the highest quality aluminium alloy AA601 grade.
  • Sand cast and slow cooled for maximum toughness.
  • Designed to fit 65NB 100NB or 200NB galvanised steel tube.
  • Will not rust.
  • Eliminates cutting, jigging, welding, grinding, hot dipping, dressing and painting.
  • Standard elbows  for structures to 6m x 10m and heavy duty elbows for structures to 8m x 15m.
  • Mega elbows designed for structures to 200sm
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       Stainless Steel Fittings

•          Abacus Shade Structures is a proud distributor of James Glenn quality stainless steel    hardware and fittings.
           Installers of shade sails can obtain advise and stainless steel fittings from people who know  what works because we are in the business of shade sails and shade structures.
  •        We stock
  •  Stainless steel cable.
  •  stainless steel rigging fittings
  •  D shackles
  •  D Ring and thimble sets
  •  Eye bolts
  •  Turnbuckles.
  •  Bow shackles
  •  Stainless steel plates
  •  and more to make sail installation a breeze.
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       Ezy-Slides for Shade Sails.

• •    EZY-SLIDE D-Rings and EZY-SLIDE T-Rings were developed by Eric Moonen of Abacus Shade Structures.
  •    Now considered a mainstream component of shade sail manufacture.
  •    Designed to allow the free movement of perimeter cable in both shade cloth and waterproof membrane sails.
  •    All stainless steel content and fully Australian made.
  •   The system also ensures identical loading on all anchor points and on all curves. The result:
  •                      ...NO Tight sides... NO Puckers... NO Wrinkles...
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