[Public-List] reswaging?

[Jonathan Adams]

Other than all of the comments that have preceded this, there is one other one. 
This is related to the fact that a swage when it is well done maintains a 
certain thickness of the stainless surrounding the wire. Every time the swage is 
squeezed to re-tighten it, there is less stainless surrounding the wire. At some 
point this becomes a problem.

A point on the hardening issue. If you are using a swage press that has dies - 
as opposed to a rotary press that pounds the fitting from all sides, you stand a 
very good chance of creating a bend in the fitting. This creates a hard point 
where the wire leaves the fitting as it is not leading "fair", add to this the 
work hardening, and ...

Bottom line. If you have swage fittings that you THINK need re working, it is 
time to get new ones. This is especially the case if the boat is in real salt 
water (versus not real salt water like the Chesapeake).

Jonathan
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From: John Birch <Sunstone at cogeco.ca>
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Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 11:15:39 AM
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Yes, very serious problem - it's called "work hardening"


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From: "Roger L. Kingsland" <r.kingsland at ksba.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:41 AM
Subject: [Public-List] reswaging?


> We have an interesting guy at our marina who fixes radar on commercial tow
> boats (don't know why they call them tow boats when they actually push
> barges).  I mentioned to him hearing that storing a mast outside in cold
> climates can cause problems with standing rigging when ice gets in the
> connections.  His reaction was that ice would expand the swag fittings and
> that could be fixed by recompressing the fitting (not removing it, just
> tightening it).
>
> Does anyone see a problem w/ giving this a try? It seems logical, 
> but.......
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger 148
>

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