On Sep 8, 10:58*pm, The Hurdy Gurdy Man
wrote:
I was rather surprised to see some rather nice looking wire rope terminators
at Harbor Freight this weekend, like so:


I would tend to shy away from those in favor of properly swaged
couplings. They don't seem to have a very high load rating. I have
seen (somewhere, don't remember off the top of my head) a company that
sold protective/decorative "boots" for swaged couplings that concealed
and protected them.