What the hell is a swedge and how do you pronounce it!

Swedge. I always called those thingys you crimped on cables swedges. Pronounced Squ edge ??? WTF?

 

<font color="green">It's like wedge with an "S" on it.

RASHY </font>

 

Ya sure it's not Swede with a G in it?



(Rash is right)

 

prounounced SWAGE (sway-ge)

 

yeah swage ,never heard of swedge,

 

<font color="green">Holy ShIITE, it is Swage,

I haven't had to make them for so long I forgot.

At first I thought you were talking about when Dirk Smith in sixth grade pulls your undies up so far he can tie them in a knot over your head just before he sticks your head in the toilet and flushes it.

Wet droopy undies all day long.

You guys remember those days right?

It happens to everyone doesn't it?

Oh ****, it was just me?

I mean, yeah, it never happened to me but they did get my "friend" once.


What was the question about anyway?

Anyone ever use a Swagelock fitting. They are a blast aren't they?

Alright, I'm going now.

The voices, they call me.

RASHY </font>

 

Isn't a swedge also what you use in order to expand tubing, as in an exhaust system? Like an expanding mandrel?

 

No such word as "swedge" in my Funkin' Wagnalls. It's "swage" (pronounced like "age") and it refers to forming metal.

 

I have used swedges on the end of parking brake cables.
Next time I will probably braze a ball on the end though.

I think they swedge the ends of the cable when your garage door cables are installed too.
TZ

 

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It's "swage" (pronounced like "age") and it refers to forming metal.

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You can "swage" a brake line, an exhaust pipe or anything that needs the original size or shape to be changed.

 

I lost a bet with my Dad once on this word! The middle part of the drum of my mustang came apart and out, and my dad said that it was swedged in and I laughed at him and asked if that was a contraction like the word tump as in tumped over (turned and dumped = tumped)... I figured swedged was smashed and wedged... hahahaha Dad won that fight, said he was glad he wasn't a dumb little kid like me, and I gave him $10.