How To Use Aluminum Cable Sleeves

Not for use on coated wire rope.

How to use aluminum cable sleeves.

Place the fitting between the jaws of the swaging tool and compress it firmly onto the wire rope. Stop sleeves will not hold to the nominal published break strength of any cable. Specs for cable sleeves to order click the product above. Each ferrule and stop set is designed for looking and swaging the ends of wire rope.

Use with thimbles to form eye loops. The aluminum is soft. For looping and swaging ends of wire rope. When compressed by the swaging tool it will be forced into the valleys of the cable locking the aluminum sleeve into place.

The swaging tool is a cold metal press that allows you to crimp ferrules and other attachments onto the cable. Sleeves and other fittings swaged over a plastic jacket will not hold to the nominal published break strength of the cable. Use with 1 8 in. Most commonly aluminum hour glass sleeves are used with hot dip galvanized cable to form cable assemblies.

Aluminum sleeves can be used for either type of wire rope but please note aluminum is more likely to react and corrode with stainless steel wire rope and in salt water. Begin assembly with an end stop. Then once you have one that looks right really try to rip the wires out to verify that you have a good internal connection. Plan on destroying one or two sleeves first just to get the technique down.

The aluminum construction is designed to be lightweight and durable. Otherwise use pliers or get a hammer and chisel and dent the sleeve at two or three points with the chisel.