You need to use a crimping tool not a swaging tool. They are different tools. They are NOT interchangeable. I have both.
This is the crimp tool: https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?id=338042 You can use one of these: https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?id=1044153 With the lever style you make 3 crimps. With the bolt style you make 5 crimps. I rotate the fitting 180 degrees after each crimp. If you don't, the fitting will curve slightly. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 7:43 AM Bruce Whitmore via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to replace the lifelines on my 1994 37/40+. I am going to go with > bare 7/19 wire, and need to crimp on the stud fittings. For the hand crimp > stud fittings, Johnson says not to use a nicopress tool. West Marine's had > swage tool is set to use both for oval (nicopress) fittings and round > fittings, but the person at the store had no idea if the tool was adequate > for the stud lifeline fittings. > > I wasn't ready to do it this weekend, but would like to get the job done > shortly. > > Does anyone here know? > > Thank you! > > Bruce Whitmore > "Astralis" > (847) 404-5092 (mobile) > bwhitm...@sbcglobal.net > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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