dsergison
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2003
- Location
- East Peoria, IL, USA
I bought a tiny Laser 2 sailing dingy and I am replacing most of the standing rigging.
It's a mix of 3/32" and 1/8" wire rope. Currently uses nicopress sleeves and thimbles everywhere but I want to use marine eyelets.
Problem is, an eyelet hand roll-swaging machine is $5,000
I know I can order the cables made to length but I have some anti-chafing plastic tubing and such hardware that needs to be installed in the middle of the cable and I can't put it on after swaging.
I am also a hopeless do-it-your-selfer.
Do you think I can swage them successfully in a hydraulic press with a simple grooved die of slightly less than the reduced size and a couple of hits? I know that you run the eyes through the hand roll swaging machine twice to press out the seam from the first pass so it seems likely it can be worked at least twice.
I need to reduce the 1/8" fitting from .250 to .219 and the 3/32 fitting from .219 to .190 They are pretty small fittings.
Thanks
It's a mix of 3/32" and 1/8" wire rope. Currently uses nicopress sleeves and thimbles everywhere but I want to use marine eyelets.
Problem is, an eyelet hand roll-swaging machine is $5,000
I know I can order the cables made to length but I have some anti-chafing plastic tubing and such hardware that needs to be installed in the middle of the cable and I can't put it on after swaging.
I am also a hopeless do-it-your-selfer.
Do you think I can swage them successfully in a hydraulic press with a simple grooved die of slightly less than the reduced size and a couple of hits? I know that you run the eyes through the hand roll swaging machine twice to press out the seam from the first pass so it seems likely it can be worked at least twice.
I need to reduce the 1/8" fitting from .250 to .219 and the 3/32 fitting from .219 to .190 They are pretty small fittings.
Thanks