longer swages?

[neil_s]

Mast is down, now. Waiting for the crane next weekend. Something went a bit wrong during the mast down operation, though, and the swaged eye at the top of my forestay now sticks out at rightangles to the wire with a very sharp bend in the 6mm 1X19 just as it enters the swaged fitting. I only replaced this wire the year before last so I was a bit gloomy at the prospect of replacing it again. I had a thought this morning, though, of those extra long Sta-lok fittings to salvage this very problem. Unfortunately, my forestay lives inside a headsail reefing spar and I don't think there's enough room for the body of a Sta-lok. Can you get extra long swaged eye fittings anywhere?

Cheers! Neil

 

[geoffatstanpit]

I have a similar problem but I'd have to lose about 4" to get the end of the swage into the foil. Could you wind some more into the adjustment thread at the bottom and add a toggle or something to get the length back right?