swages onto rod

[knothead]

Originally Posted by Robbie.g

Went to check over a boat today, usual wire swages/fittings but all had rod inplace of wire, never seen it before today ... Rigging was 8-10 yrs old from the USA. Have i missed something?? [wire swages on rod]. Maybe my sphere of experience is smaller than i thought.
Just looking for your thoughts/2 cents worth... or please educate me. I've only ever seen the navtec style fittings (or very similar).

I first saw this done at Lars Bergstrum's shop. He used the same procedure that one uses when swaging dyform wire. That is using an adhesive like green lok-tite and diamond dust.
A boat I did this on over ten years ago is still going strong.

[Robbie.g]

thanks for the replys. i thought it a bit dodge, but as you say it does seem to stand up to the job. Of the boats i've been in contact with, one boat had sailed across the pacific 3 times and the other had been well raced over my years. That said you will not be seeing that kinda setup on my boat. As it goes both boats opted to re-rig in dyform, [as per the rigplans!]. Thanks for enlightening me.