Okay I'm gonna do some swadging now I bought these ferules and these rope
thimbles and some cable and we're going to turn this into this weird contraption
that you see right here this is going to go across a couple of points for a tie
down and a trailer and there's the parts and I'll show you how it works so I'm
gonna remove this stuff in a package and get started. Here we go.
okay here I've fed the wire rope through the ferrule making a loop on one end
I've had another fare on the center that catches these two wires call it wire
rope and the loop on the other end so the whole thing is exactly what is it
five foot eight inches long from one end to the other and then I'll throw in a
couple of these wire rope thimbles they call them and the ends and then I'll go
ahead and swedge these aluminum Ferrell's so each one gets wedged and
that's coming coming right up important all right so we're going to switch the
center part first what I'm going to do is put a crimp on each end and just put
it in the tool make sure you got the right sizes three sixteenths I've walked
this into the vise makes it much easier to do trying to grab it with two hands
very difficult so once it's there I just pull it home just like that and you can
see the nice cramping foots in the ferrule and then I'll do the other end
just like this
she's a lot of pressure yeah they'll do one more in the middle
and there's the completed center section and then I'm going to do the same thing
on each end it'll be done yeah installed then we'll number one
sorry about that it's on a tripod keep bumping stuff and just inserted the
thimble and then pulled this up to it so what's snug and then come the end
this time we'll do the center will do the end and the other end there's one
the other side now
your links are the same and they are
the center groan groan groan next side
the last one and then you can see how nice a job that does totally current or
swedge pretty slick and it makes it really easy when you lock the the
crimper and the vise I got all this stuff from Home Depot so there's my
completed my completed product I'll show you a picture of the finished thing on
the workbench okay here's the finished system so these are rated at 1500 pounds
apiece actually this one is I take that back that's 2200 pounds so this just
unscrews on the end and probably seen these before but what makes it so strong
if it's threaded all the way through this is threaded onto here and then it
threads onto there this end will go around the d-rings that are in the floor
of my 5th wheel trailer and this is going to be a quad hold down strap so
this goes across from side to side the trailers eight feet wide and the d-rings
are exactly six feet apart so from this end down to this other end right here is
six feet so that finished wire strap this goes into one side and then goes to
the other and then I'll have a hook that grabs here and pulls onto the quad and
I'll show you all this when I actually get them installed but this is the
finished finished piece you came out pretty cool swedge absolutely nothing to
stab your fingers on the wire pieces are all one got down in there a little ways
but it's okay most of the force is here here it's all distributed evenly
throughout the whole rope so this ought to work so it'll work great so that's
the construction of my new hold down device and this is all part of Glander
R&D Glander research and design always creating something new working something
out in the shop to make life more fun make things more efficient and a whole
lot easier that's what Glander R&D is all about