Red_Chili
Hard Core 4+
Letcher finners do da walkin'...
Now, where does one find a high quality mechanical-advantage (or hydraulic) swager for less than an arm and a leg? I'm talking the ones that are 2 feet long, not the hammer/vice/cold-chisel method....
Earlier in this thread, it was mentioned that West Marine has a work bench with a good swager... but the component supply appears sketchy.
I can justify in my mind affording the connectors & cables from West Marine if it saves spending $150+ on a swager that I'll likely only use once or twice in my lifetime. But going up there to find that they're out of supplies would be a big waste of time...
Thanks, Jeff, for the additional info and the generous offers.Hants, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the crimper that West Marine had attached to the work bench (on account that I couldn't use it for my application) but it looked pretty heavy duty...Big red sucker with probably a 2' handle so I imagine it would put a pretty good crimp on the cable.
I went ahead and purchased the swaging tool (looks exactly like this - nicopress swaging tool) 'cuz I was running out of options. It seemed to put a serious crimp (swag ?) on the terminal/cable. Then ('cuz I was thinking this was a temp deal) I quadruple coated the ends with some liquid black tape stuff I had (you can see it here - pic #4). If I leave it this way then I'll go ahead and put some heat shrink tube on there as well.
If you need me to, I can run by there for you to see if they have what you need before you make the trip up. I would just need a list/description and a few days notice. And, you're more than welcome to try the swaging tool I bought to see how it would work for you. I'm not sure if it will do 1/0 ga cable but it handled the 2ga winch cable reasonably well. Just let me know how I can help
I went ahead and purchased the swaging tool (looks exactly like this - nicopress swaging tool) 'cuz I was running out of options.
If you need me to, I can run by there for you to see if they have what you need before you make the trip up. I would just need a list/description and a few days notice. And, you're more than welcome to try the swaging tool I bought to see how it would work for you. I'm not sure if it will do 1/0 ga cable but it handled the 2ga winch cable reasonably well. Just let me know how I can help
Figured repeated blows with a hammer might do more harm than good
Necessity being the mother..................