I have taken some marginal looking nicopress looks and stretched them on a press until failure. It's always been the cable that failed rather than the crimped end.
Jeff Scott On Sun, 22 May 2005 17:11:00 -0400 "haroldwoods" <haroldwo...@rogers.com> writes: > Hi Netters. > Would you like a bit of history ? Emile Meneke was a German fighter > pilot in World War 1. He fought in Turkey and became an ace. After > the war he worked as test pilot for Focker Aircraft in Holland until > he retired in 1945 as chief test pilot. He immigrated to Canada . I > met this pilot in 1961. He was full of stories of aviation from all > ages. One story came about as he and I were looking at a swaged > nicropress connection on an aircraft cable. I had suggested that the > nicropress fitting was the weak link in the connection. He said no. > We used to join two control cables when necessary by taking a piece > of copper tubing just large enough to run both cables through it, > the end of the cables stuck out the opposite ends. The copper tube > was about 10 inches long.You then took two vise grips, one on each > end of the copper tube and twisted it up like a rope for about 5 > turns. He said that it would never pull apart. I still like the > three squeezes on the present nicro[press system. Emile Meneke died > of natural causes at age 85. His son Hans, also a pilot and > homebuilder, built a Stits Flutter bug which he was testing around > 1970. He had to take care to keep an eye on his father, who would > have loved to climb in and go, poor eye sight and all. > Regards, > Harold Woods > Orillia,ON. Canada. > haroldwo...@rogers.com > Regards.
