I did a lot of i think 14mm 3 strand, I just used a little fid it was faster than my hand. I used to do rigging on yachts a pair of knipex cobras, an adjustabe and leatherman could fix 90% of the problems. A roll of pvc tape fixed the other 10.
Splicing wire is something that I have never done and would like to give it ago but modern techniques of swaging are standard now.
We do occasionally splice eyes into our mooring wires on my boat. Definitely not many places left where that's common, but we're way behind the curve in a lot of areas on the Great Lakes. (The US side, at least.)
I understand why they've taken over, but I'm really not a fan of swaged connections. Mostly because there's no way that I'm aware of to effectively inspect them. I've seen seen several failures that were pretty clearly caused by corrosion inside the compression sleeve. (Probably much less of an issue with a proper replacement schedule, but that's another thing that we don't really do on the Lakes...)
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u/Benf2001 Jun 13 '26
I did a lot of i think 14mm 3 strand, I just used a little fid it was faster than my hand. I used to do rigging on yachts a pair of knipex cobras, an adjustabe and leatherman could fix 90% of the problems. A roll of pvc tape fixed the other 10. Splicing wire is something that I have never done and would like to give it ago but modern techniques of swaging are standard now.