Selecting and Using Swage Sleeves

Here’s another interesting swaging or cable fabrication tidbit. Swage fittings elongate when you swage them. Maybe more than you think. Here you can literally watch it happen, as I cut the wire short, and the finished product is the exact goal length. Of course this issue is less important when turnbuckles are involved - but can still create interesting discrepancies when both ends elongation isn’t accounted for. Of course it’s most important on fixed length cables with no adjustment, like v2/d3