"Bruce" wrote in message
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I think that if you were "brooming" cable for the Stalok or Norseman
fittings you were doing something wrong. At least if you were brooming
them the same as you do with spelter sockets. With the spelter sockets
you broom out the wire to as close as separate wires as possible while
both the stalok and norseman instructions tell you to separate the
cable into the separate twisted strands. the center strand fits in the
center of the wedge and the outer strands lay down the outside. It is
really a trivial task.

Cheers,

Bruce

It was such a long time ago when I last did this that I cannot remember the
exact type of the terminal in question but I seem to recall that the
individual wires had to have an inward bend put onto their ends to follow,
or to encourage them to follow, a corresponding curve on the end of the
insert when the whole terminal was tightened up. I remember thinking that
this was such a complicated procedure that the chances of getting it wrong
were too high for comfort.