Crimp-on Fittings for Small Cable
                         by Ted Edwards

See also baby_crimp1.jpg
         baby_crimp2.jpg
         baby_crimp3.jpg

I originally came up with this scheme for rigging radio controlled
sailboats.  The ferrule is a 1/4" long piece of 1/8" Al 5556 TIG rod.
The hole is drilled with a #56 drill lubed with A9 Aluminum cutting
fluid.  The crimper shown in baby_crimp1.jpg came from Boeing Surplus
and is intended (I think) for crimping connectors onto coax center
conductors.  The wire rope is 0.021" diameter and was obtained from a
model shop.  As you can see, there's no way you're going to pull the
loop out of the crimp.

For a ball end, I drill a 1/32" hole, start to cut off 1/8" of the rod,
file the ends round and finish cutting off.  Crimp is with crimper set
to wire size 12.

I have also crimped these fittings with a Sargent mini-crimper 
as shown in baby_crimp2.jpg with some of the fittings.  This gave 
results at least as good as with the other tool.  Note that the
sizes shown on the Sargent tool refer to the wire sizes not the fitting 
OD.

An example of the result is shown in baby_crimp3.jpg.  I did this after
loosing a couple of shackle pins.