Tip of the Day - cable ends
- simonineaston
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Tip of the Day - cable ends
Must just pass on a way with cable ends that's got me out of trouble a fair few times recently. We all know the potential that cable-ends have to fray and that once the cable inner / outer combination has been put in place, the number of times the inner can be removed and replaced is often dependant on the cable-end staying unfrayed. So my tip is simply this: I keep a small tube of 'super-glue' in a zip-lock bag, in the freezer, where it seems to last for months and when I have to withdraw a cable-inner from its outer, I remove the ferule (obs) and apply the super-glue to the cable-end to stop it fraying. This seems particularly effective when applied to thinner gear cable inners and has recently allowed me to remove and replace gear mech cable inners several times without the end fraying and making the task difficult-if-not-impossible.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
S
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
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I've been doing this for may years now. I didn't realise so many didn't - so well done Simon for sharing. Tip about the freezer sounds useful too. I find it useful to put the superglue on the cable before I cut the ferrule off. You lose a centimetre of cable every time but never fray the cable removing the ferrule.
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"Tip"... excellent.
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Re: Tip of the Day - cable ends
I had got into the habit of squeezing the glue into the cable inner by placing kitchen towel around the end and then squeezing between thumb & fore-finger - however this has also resulted in a layer of kitchen towel become very firmly attached indeed to my flesh... now do same but wearing gloves!
S
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
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I gave up on ferrules a while ago, using a length of heat shrink tubing instead - superglue sounds like a top notch idea though.
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Squeeze the glue into the cable end before attaching it when renewing the cable. Keeps the end from fraying when you pull the cable end off to work on the cable thereafter.
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Re: Tip of the Day - cable ends
bit like heat-free solder
S
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Re: Tip of the Day - cable ends
If you treat the cable ends gently they'll twist back together neatly if they tend to come undone, then if you twist the outer as you put it on, it will go without snagging.
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... sometimes.axel_knutt wrote: ↑3 Dec 2021, 5:25pm If you treat the cable ends gently they'll twist back together neatly if they tend to come undone, then if you twist the outer as you put it on, it will go without snagging.
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Hot melt glue gun, cable slides up inside nozzle, let it heat up, withdraw and leave a little blob of glue on the end, easy to melt off when needed.
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I heard about the super glue idea on here yonks back, but it never worked for me as the glue made the inners too thick to pass though the outers. Tried sanding them down and seemed to work, but it matters not IMHO as I can't remember the last time I removed a cable and then wanted to put it back in, so ferrule ends crimped on is best for me.
The only place they seem to wear is at the shifter/brake end, so in which case the cable is scrap.
I use Campag cables on Mercian and they are lubricated for life, so they never get touched.
On Moulton, I fitted cable oilers, so I can inject oil into them. I have used silicon grease and 3in1 oil ......... both come in aerosol cans with injector tubes.
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They come in sets of three.
The only place they seem to wear is at the shifter/brake end, so in which case the cable is scrap.
I use Campag cables on Mercian and they are lubricated for life, so they never get touched.
On Moulton, I fitted cable oilers, so I can inject oil into them. I have used silicon grease and 3in1 oil ......... both come in aerosol cans with injector tubes.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162525452073
They come in sets of three.
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Re: Tip of the Day - cable ends
Never had much luck with super glue on anything if I'm honest, it works fine on kitchen cornice and pelmet mitres, but thats because of the activator you spray on the other surface. On its own its too brittle.
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Nor me, tried it a few times but the strands would still separate.
It was the only good thing about galvanised cables, you could put a blob of solderon the end.
It was the only good thing about galvanised cables, you could put a blob of solderon the end.