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Tony - Jeff -
Sorry I'm late responding to this, it's been a crazy week and I guess I just lost the thread.
Re' those little copper tubes:
Jeff - they are different from those copper caps.
Tony - There is no spec for those that I know of. They were ancient when I first saw them 40 years ago.
In the electrical world we use those insulated plastic tubes, but most of the ones I've used are for 12 AWG.
Sam
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For the few times I needed them lately I just take a lug of any type but appropriate for the wire size and clip the ring or spade off and remove the plastic. I do know what you are talking about, they are uninsulated crimp splices. I used to use them also until my supply ran out. They have to be still made. Did you look at T&B? I believe those are the ones I had.
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Excellent information....we used Nicopress sleeves with sleeve rollers to repair all types of open wire.
Thanks for the memories.
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When I lived in Salina, KS we had a guy come in to see if we had any open-span line! An interconnect that began business in 1981! Oh well, I guess he figured phones is phones. Turns out he loved it for electric fence! Dug around and found out North Supply still had a part number! He was not interested when we told him price and quantity he would have to take.  John C.
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We use the sleeves and waxed string to fish walls.
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Thanks Arthur. I used Hi-press stuff on the power when we built COs and Node sites but I always thought of it as for BIG electrical stuff. I guess the smallest I used it for was #6 AWG.
Sam
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Interesting...I never knew Nicopress made electrical stuff, I have used their sleeves for aircraft cable when hanging speakers.
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Right Arthur the small ones were for IW, the larger ones came in to different hole diameters, a smaller one for drop wire; and the larger one for iron(open) wire. It's been a long time ago HUH?
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