Originally Posted by
bellweatherman
Nonsense. Epoxy is used in all of the high end carbon bikes for cable stops without any issues. Using it on an alloy like steel or aluminum would matter not. Cable stops do not see a lot of force acting on them in the same way that a metered joint does. The strength of an epoxied cable stop would far exceed the forces imposed on it from the pulling of the brake cable.
If such nonsense, please tell me why it's not done by fabricators. And please back your theory. Epoxying a series of brazeons is much cheaper, faster, causes less HAZ concerns, etc. etc. So if it's so adequate, and better in every other respect? Restrict the domain to steel::steel applications, as mentioned, with all of the other concerns at hand.
I've just made a simple test rig to calculate pressure, a few points: I'm not that strong, these are not good levers, the cable bends are not ideal. I'm able to easily get to 45 kgs squeezing, the digital scale is rated only to 50kgs+/-50gs.
How are you calculating maximum possible force? And your calculations on how epoxy would hold up? Thanks, it matter would.