[Towertalk] Aircraft Cable

[Stan & Patricia Griffiths]

Well . . . IF you do what the manufacturer says, you never use Nicopress
fittings on EHS . . . only on 7X19 stranded cable.  That is why you need
three instead of just one . . .

Stan
w7ni@easystreet.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <KI7WX@aol.com>
To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Aircraft Cable


>
> K7LXC Says:
>
> *******I think that's what the manufacturer says. I remember reading about
a
> destruct test on them (might be in the archives) that found that three was
> the safest number.
>
>
> In reference to a W0UN TT post from 1996
> (see thread in the K1TTT archives)
>
> *******The original swaging tool stuff is from Nicopress and about 20
years
> ago I wrote them about using the oval sleeves in EHS 1x7 guy strand.
> They said that the sleeves are designed to work with aircraft cable--where
> one is enough, and that they would test them on 1x7 EHS for me.  A month
> or so later they sent me the data.  It showed that one sleeve always
failed
> before the strand failed.  Two sleeves usually held and the strand failed
> first, but they had one exception to that case--and to be absolutely sure
> it took three sleeves.
>
> Be fun to have the job of destruction testing .... ..
>
> Mark
> KI7WX
>
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