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Title: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: PFSchaffner on December 10, 2015, 03:31:27 PM
This ordinary crimper/stripper seems to show two scales:
one marked "Commercial A.W.G." and  a parallel set marked
"Navy Shipboard." Am I reading this right? I was under the
impression that the Navy used AWG like everyone else.

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Title: Re: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 10, 2015, 08:57:05 PM
Possibly AWG on one side and "Circular Mils" on the other.
Plastic handles say late 50s - early 60s.

Big war in that timeframe between American Pamcore Industries and everybody else to capture the insulated crimp market. 

Nobody won best I can tell.
Title: Re: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: Billman49 on December 13, 2015, 02:49:00 PM
May just be the length gauge --------- that is Navy Shipboard, not the diameters...

Diameters may be in mm2 - 6mm2 etc.... standard UK wire sizes are 1.0, 1.5, 2.5, 4.0, 6.0, 10.0 etc...
Title: Re: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: Chillylulu on December 13, 2015, 03:52:08 PM
Awg 18 is pretty close to 1mm, but 10 gauge is only 2.6 mm.

Probably not metric, but that was one of my thoughts too.

Chilly
Title: Re: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: oldtools on December 15, 2015, 12:43:55 AM
http://www.seacoastusa.com/techwiregauge.htm

List Navy Standard conversions
Title: Re: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: PFSchaffner on December 15, 2015, 09:22:52 AM
Lo, there *is* a Navy Standard, which matches nothing else.
Thank you. 
Title: Re: where is it? (American wire gauge vs. "Navy Shipboard")
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 15, 2015, 01:27:15 PM
Quote from: PFSchaffner on December 15, 2015, 09:22:52 AM
Lo, there *is* a Navy Standard, which matches nothing else.
Thank you.

Well of course there is,  It's for all the parts in warehouses that are spares for ships scrapped after World War 2.