Mea Culpa! They are zinc not tin plated.
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"Bob Olds" wrote in message
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I think you will find the nico-press sleeves for aircraft are STEEL,not
aluminum.

\I think you'll find that they come in:
Stainless steel
Copper, tin plated copper, and zinc plated copper.
and Aluminum.

The stainless ones are not that commonly used by homebuilders. They
require a lot of pressure to crimp and only used on stainless cables.
Most
people use the copper-alloy/plated ones as appropriate for the cable
\