We operate two rotary swagers and a hydroformer (hybrid rotary swager) and have spoken at length with Torrington and Fenn - the manufacturers of these machines. They will not come to the plate one way or another.
However, we made up a 1/2 eye terminal and sacraficed it. Cutting the terminal in two with a hydro cutter to avoid any distortion, one would be hard pressed to see where the terminal began and where the wire ended. It looked like a piece of Nitronic 50 instead of 1x19
Okay, my 2 cents.
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Originally Posted by Brion Toss
Hello all,
On the one hand we have some reports, so far unsubstantiated, that adding "goo" to wires pre-swaging will compromise security, or corrosion protection, or both. On the other hand we have decades of experience and actual pull test data -- I'll dig a few out of my files, and will see if Brooks will do likewise. In addition, it seems clear that Sta-loks and the like, goo-filled or not, impose less compression on the wire yarns, over less area, than swages do, and they do not pull out. So how could sealant compromise properly-made swages?
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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