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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the process of producing a hydraulic cable is quite cool actually. you cut some off the reel (they're quite large reels - 1.5-2 metres, because as i said, some of this is quite difficult to bend). then you put it in this cool machine with the fitting you're crimping it around inside.

it's the round bit you're looking for. those 8 individual bar things are simultaneously pushed in, compressing the hose evenly around the fitting.

it's a large freestanding machine. the interesting bit is a cylinder inside of which sit 8 rounded off triangle-shaped bars arranged evenly around the cylinder interior with gaps in between.