DIY swaging tool - where to buy online

[Conachair]

Anyone know of an online shop where I can order the little diy swaging tool (3 & 4mm?), the one with 2 bars with half holes in each one which are pressed together with a bolt at each end? Did a google with no luck. A place which did swr and copper ferrules as well would be perfect. Won't be used for structural stuff.

 

[Roberto]

if you look for "ormiston wire splicer" you should get a few addresses

 

[Conachair]

That's the cookie!! Found one now, thanks.
Crikey, that was a quick response! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[bigwow]

try "brake pipe flaring tool"

 

[DownWest]

I clamped two bits of 16mm square bar together and drilled them to match the sleeves. Set up a cheap car bottle jack with a stirrup and presto! Hydraulic swager. Before drilling for the squeezing hole it is best to drill two holes the other way for bolts so it lines up when you operate it. BTW, I had a screw swager on the lines you explained, not impressed. Not easy to use and required excessive force to wind up the jaws. I had to resort to welting it with a hammer in-between screwing up.
Andrew

 

[Conachair]

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BTW, I had a screw swager on the lines you explained, not impressed. Not easy to use and required excessive force to wind up the jaws.

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What size wire were you crimping? & were they copper ferrules?
Your other method sounds much more fun but being a liveaboard it's just not going to happen. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[lw395]

cheapest I found recently was Northampton Sailboats sailboats.co.uk
Have used it no problem for 2.5mm wire.
I found a cutting disc in a dremel to be a good way of cutting the wire (1x19) without splaying the strands.
Hope that helps!

 

[William_H]

Olewill the bodger is back..... I use (for small size wire) pieces of copper tubing. I crush them with a pair of lock jaw pliers that have what was once meant to be a cutting blade nearer to the pivot than the plier jaws. You could use any methode that will make a deep indentation into the copper tube. You crush the tube in 3 places in 3 different directions. If you want extra strength you add 2 "swages" in series.
I have never had one slip yet. You obviously need to test the swages with a representative load after making.

give it a try olewill

 

[DownWest]

Hi, I was using 3mm 7x19 S.S. and copper ferrules. Nother thing, at this size and up one needs to have two bites at it. The jaws go up to 8mm. I can´t imagine how it copes with that. Perhaps only for ally ferrules but even so the loads are huge. ( I used to have a 25ton Talurit press, so a bit of practice in the art)
You could use my other method, sans jack. Just do up the holding bolts tight, belt it with a hammer, tighten some more, belt it again--until the `jaws´ are together.
The hole sizes for 3mm wire are 6.5mm, 2.5 is 5mm. (to fit the ferrules)
Hope this helps,
Andrew