Cable (wire rope) Swage Gauge

This is a handy swage guage to check the quality of cable (wire rope) swaged on (Nicopress-ish) sleeves. The gauge is used to verify the crimp is less than the maximum after-swage diameter.

Cable sizes supported are 1/16", 3/32", 1/8", 5/32", 3/16", and 1/4"

maximum after swage diameters were taken from US Rigging Supply document found at: http://www.usrigging.com/pdfs/Swage-Inst.pdf.

See the Instructions for important tips for this print

An interesting article by Kitplanes on the failures in aircraft due to poor quality swaged cable ("The Big Squeeze") can be viewed at: http://www.kitplanes.com/issues/30_12/builder_spotlight/fabricating_cables_20888-1.html.