Step by step

  1. Measure the existing shroud or stay from pin/hole center to pin/hole center.
  2. Remove the existing shroud of stay from the turnbuckle.
  3. Screw the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal into the turnbuckle.
  4. Stretch out the replacement wire alongside the existing.
  5. Place the turnbuckle and replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal with the pin/hole center at the measured distance.
  6. Mark the replacement wire at the wrench flats of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal.
  7. Cut the replacment wire at the mark using a Dremel cutoff wheel or new fine tooth hacksaw blade.
  8. Unscrew the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal from the turnbuckle.
  9. Disassemble the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal.
  10. Slide the top section of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal onto the wire.
  11. Using a towel pushed straight down on to the end of the cut wire, twist the ends to "flower" the wire.
  12. Slide the wedge of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal onto the core of the wire.
  13. Re-twist the wires to sit smoothly along the wedge making sure that no wire strands slip into the slot of the wedge.
  14. Coat the threads of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal with Lok-tite.
  15. Screw the terminal stud into the top section of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal to form the ends of the wire.
  16. Unscrew the assembly to verify both the forming of the wire and that no wire strand has slipped into the slot of the wedge.
  17. Squeeze a quantity of 3M 4200 into the terminal stud of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal.
  18. Screw the two sections of the replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal together.
  19. Verify that 3M 4200 has been forced out of the upper section of replacement Sta-Lok mechanical terminal all around the wire.
  20. Remove the excess 4200.