"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"Cy Galley" wrote in message
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Mea Culpa! They are zinc not tin plated.
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No you are right, for stainless cables they are tin plated. It's
actually not the
tin plating that makes the difference here. They use a different copper
alloy
in the tin plated version that's compatible with stainless (so says
National
Telephone, the owners of the Nicopress brand).

My thanks to all for the informative discussion. I am fabricating restraint
cables from the shoulder harness mounting back to the tailwheel. I had hoped
to get the pieces at Home Depot Aircraft Supplies, but ran into the aluminum
fittings. I'll wait until I can get to the Real Aircraft Store.

Rich S.