[tryan1956]

Hi Seawolf. I'm no expert but I have a couple thoughts. First, you _can_ do this. For me, beating and snapping are satisfying but massaging is more effective. You'll probably need to use every trick Brion shows us in his video. Is the core bunching up where it goes over the cover? That needs to be pretty tight. Are you using a strop to get all the loose cover down to the splice? Massage the splice, then try to get the cover up 1/16 of an inch, repeat. It might take a half hour of more the first few times. Once the crossover is completely in the cover the last little bit is easy.