DrollTroll wrote:
Awl --

You know the loop at the end of wire rope, with a crimped-type band, often
around an "eye", maintaining the loop?

For the life of me, I cain't grok how that crimp holds, at such high load
ratings. It amazes me. It looks inherently weak, but apparently does the
job.
AND, if I have seen correctly, it seems that some of these crimps are
aluminum!

I would have thought some exotic-type brazing or welding would be required
for reliable strength.

Is this crimp method readily performed in a shop with a simple arbor press?

I may be requiring some of this to be done, but it just gives me the
willies, from a liability pov.


DT

Your eye splice, with just an aluminum Nicropress sleeve, is possibly a
Molly Hogan. Take a look at

http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/show....php?p=1572836

After the eye is fully formed, the two ends can be put back in lay, and
the Nicropress sleeve put over that, and it would be hard to tell that
from just a bent eye.

Don