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These are two different animals:
A. Swaged Fittings- - Require a rotary swaging
tool that is a large, heavy, delicate and expensive piece of equipment
found at some FBOs and Sailboat Rigging Shops. Swaged fittings are
designed to have more strength than the cable.
B. Nicopress Fittings- - Can be applied by cheap
bolt-clamp squeezers or much larger tools (about 2' long). Nicopress
fittings are much cheaper and the weak link in the cable. Probably OK for
anything Lancair specifies them for if properly installed.
Tell any shop you use that you want to watch the
verification tool used on each fitting after the job is done. In my
previous life as a simple yacht merchant we were very careful to screen out the
ultra lite guys, liability you know.
Steve Colwell Legacy N15SC
reserved (530) 621-3408 Placerville,
CA
Aircraft Spruce
says the fittings must be installed with a
rotary swaging tool
Charles,
Interestingly,
Aircraft Spruce has a tool kit for cutting cables and swaging nicopress
sleeves if you aren't doing that for a living. The kit is very
inexpensive and the swaging tool consists of machined bars with
different sized opening and bolts that, when tightened to clamp the bars
together, do a perfect job of swaging nicopress sleeves onto the cables.
I have not been able to pull my cables apart when thusly done.
Scott
Krueger
N92EX
PS Rob's suggestion to use your local mechanic's
tool is also a good way to get the job done.
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