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1. [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Greg" <ab7r@cablespeed.com>; Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:53:07 -0800; Finally about ready to recable my tower. Just received the 7x19 galv aircraft cable, the swag sleevs and thimbles. My question is ....are the boltcutter type swagging tools just as good as the hydrau; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00160.html (7,043 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "k6xyz" <k6xyz@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:47:15 -0600; You could contact Karl Tashjian (former Tri-Ex Tower) and have him custom make whatever you need. http://www.tashtowers.com/towereng.html Regards Dave Harmon NSRCA 586 K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net Sper; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00161.html (8,130 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Larry Burke" <wi5a@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 07:54:43 -0600; Greg, my experience would say you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want to use a hand tool to make the crimp in a critical application like this. I had a guy at one of the "big box" stores make one like that for me; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00164.html (8,976 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Julio Peralta" <jperalta@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:45:17 -0500; On the other hand we used a hand manual crimping tool to re-cable a 106 foot motorized crank-up Tri-ex tower on a trailer and have experienced no problems. If the tool is made for the job I think it; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00167.html (10,172 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Doug Rehman" <rehman@electronicdiscovery.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:20:44 -0500; I haven't done 1/4", but I have done 3/16" with a hand crimper (large bolt cutter looking contraption). It isn't too bad a job. Avoid the hardware store crimpers- they're only designed for crimping a; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00170.html (7,725 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Doug Rehman" <rehman@electronicdiscovery.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:52:49 -0500; I haven't done 1/4", but I have done 3/16" with a hand crimper (large bolt cutter looking contraption). It isn't too bad a job. Avoid the hardware store crimpers- they're only designed for crimping a; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00172.html (7,727 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Dick Green WC1M" <wc1m@msn.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:37:50 -0500; I used a manual swaging tool to make new guys for extending an AB-577 to 75'. Although visual inspection isn't conclusive, I couldn't see any difference between the manually swaged sleeves and the on; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00176.html (12,673 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Bob Maser" <bmaser@tampabay.rr.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:59:11 -0500; I have re-cabled 3 LM470's using a "hand" swagger made by H K Porter. It is 3 feet long and it does a great swaging job. It is, however, for 3/16" galvanized cable, not 1/4", which would make a huge; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00185.html (11,808 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "FISCHER,GREG" <ab7r@cablespeed.com>; Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:54:36 -0600; Tnx Bob. I've been doing some research. Not sure still what or if there is a difference between the nicopress sleeves and other brands. I bought my cable and sleeves from stagerigging.com. Their tool; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00191.html (13,646 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: Eric Scace K3NA <eric@k3na.org>; Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:10:42 -0500; Back in the 1980s a group of PVRCers bought a hand-operated Nicopress tool. As someone else described in an earlier e-mail, it was expensive... and had arms about 3 feet long. I built two AB-105 towe; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00200.html (8,825 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Darrel J. Van Buer" <darrel@vanbuer.net>; Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:24:53 -0800; I have no concern about hand swagging as long as all of the following are true: Right sleeve (or sleeves, sometimes it has to be 2 or 3) for the cable size, type and application. Nicopress has a larg; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00205.html (8,488 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "Bob" <w3yy@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:52:24 -0000; Greg - I've used the Nicopress brand manual "bolt-cutter type" crimping tools with Nicopress brand sleeves and end-stops for about 30-years and have never had a failure in a single application. The N; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00212.html (10,077 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "jason@creager.com" <jason@creager.com>; Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 05:09:48 +0000 (UTC); I missed the original posting, but on 7x19 cable (and anything small enough to do by hand) it does not matter what tool does the crimping. Hand or hydraulic, it's the same thing. The compression of t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00219.html (9,287 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Nicopress swags (score: 1): Author: "K3GM" <k3gm_qrp@verizon.net>; Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:58:24 -0500; Just getting around to answering this one. When using an actual Nicopress hand swaging tool, once the swage has begun, the jaws will not open until the swage has reached it's specified outer diameter; /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-12/msg00427.html (11,475 bytes)

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