Hi all,

I am with John. My father and now I, have done our own and many other peoples stay's hand swaged for 20 odd years. Apart from one incident when completly fitting out and rigging a Contender over night, where the wrong size swages where used, failures have been negligible <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

Also corrosion is minimal as long as you wash down after salt water sailing, generaly the wire shows signs of internal rust before swages have any problems.