HAND TOOL FOR APPLYING A FERRULE TO A CABLE

摘要

A hand tool for crimping or swaging a ferrule (24) onto the free end of a safety cable (20) having a pre-swaged ferrule (22) installed at its other end (20a) and which has been threaded through a series of fasteners (10, 12, 14) to be tethered together, includes an elongate nose portion (46), relatively movable handles (26a, 28a), a knob type cable tensioner (200) including a tapered friction cable gripper (204) having a detent clutch device (210,212) for limiting maximum tension applied to a safety cable by the knob tensioner, and a replaceable hardened cutter plate (250) at the distal cable cutoff area (46b) of the nose portion (46) of the tool.