Re; Nicos

Mea Culpa! They are zinc not tin plated.
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Cy Galley, TC - Chair, Emergency Aircraft Repair, Oshkosh
Editor, EAA Safety Programs
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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
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"Cy Galley" wrote in message news:LhWGb.465476$Dw6.1374811@attbi_s02...
Mea Culpa! They are zinc not tin plated.
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No you are right, for stainless cables they are tin plated. It's actually not the
tin plating that makes the difference here. They use a different copper alloy
in the tin plated version that's compatible with stainless (so says National
Telephone, the owners of the Nicopress brand).

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:34:57 -0500, in rec.aviation.homebuilt you
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"Drew Dalgleish" wrote in message ...
At the local farm supply they're selling aluminum nico sleeves. Has
anyone had any experience using these ?

This is not surprising. The press type swaging for support/guy wires and wire
fencing long before people thought about using them in airplanes and boats.
I'd be careful that these are the ones designed for steel aircraft cable rather
than fence wire before risking my life on them.

The nicos were being sold beside the stainless and galvanized aircraft
cable. I'm not planning on risking my life to them but using them on
the check cables and drift cutters on the skis I'm building.
Drew

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"Cy Galley" wrote in message
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Mea Culpa! They are zinc not tin plated.
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No you are right, for stainless cables they are tin plated. It's
actually not the
tin plating that makes the difference here. They use a different copper
alloy
in the tin plated version that's compatible with stainless (so says
National
Telephone, the owners of the Nicopress brand).

My thanks to all for the informative discussion. I am fabricating restraint
cables from the shoulder harness mounting back to the tailwheel. I had hoped
to get the pieces at Home Depot Aircraft Supplies, but ran into the aluminum
fittings. I'll wait until I can get to the Real Aircraft Store.

Rich S.