If you have a good swaging tool, you can certainly make them on site. I like doing it at west marine because they have a bench swager. The big hand swager works good too though. Mke sure you use 2 thimbles on your swage. And double swage each thimble.
psycho, yeah there is another Hurricane heading this way, will be here when you are here, have fun. I Hope my plane can fly out early enough friday to miss it, or I may be around. I guess the good part is we will have plenty of wind!

David