How Do You Close a Swage

Just crush the thing with any tool you have around. If you can use a big vise to crush them down, that’s probably the most ‘controlled’ way. Otherwise, use pliers, or get a hammer and chisel and dent the sleeve at two or three points with the chisel.

How do you swage ferrule and stop?

Swage the ferrules by starting at one end and compressing the oval shaped fitting sideways between the jaws. Use enough force to create a deep indentation. Ferrules require two or more of these compressions per fitting depending on the application.

What is the difference between swaging and crimping?

“In swaging, a machine pushes a fitting and ferrule through a fixed split die bed to reduce the OD of the ferrule, compressing the hose into the stem serrations, while a crimping machine has any number of segment dies that close around the ferrule or sleeve and reducing it to a predetermined OD.