Originally Posted by
Burton
So people are using superglue, goop and hot glue as alternatives to crimping a cable tips. Has anyone tried just using pliers and squeezing the cable tip across the two sides that WEREN'T crimped? The tip can be pulled right off afterwards. My issue is still the same. The distortion (or ocassionally broken strands) where the cable is clamped is my biggest obstacle. How do you guys deal with that?
I usually just run new cables, but for the guys at the coop who actually cannot
afford the two bucks we charge for a cable, I can often just bend the cable back
straight enough to work with fingers/bench vise in a pinch.
I have pretty much soldered the end of every cable I care about over the years,
but the things are so cheap now that I usually just whack off the end with a
decent cable cutter and leave it alone........no crimp, no glue, no solder, nada.
But I am very wild and living close to the edge here in California...........
