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Old 07-25-15 | 07:30 PM
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FBinNY
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Bikes: too many bikes from 1967 10s (5x2)Frejus to a Sumitomo Ti/Chorus aluminum 10s (10x2), plus one non-susp mtn bike I use as my commuter

Housing doesn't compress that way.

Two possibilities come to mind.

1- that isn't cable housing, but hydraulic line, and therefore lacks compression strength altogether. This is easy enough to confirm by looking at the ends which should have a circle of steel strands cut end on. Anything else, ie a bunch of thin strands, vs roughly 15-20 rigid wire ends, and it's not cable housing.

2- you used the wrong style ferrules, with conical bottoms, and the structural strands are pinching toward center and extruding through.

Just looking at the outside, I lean toward hydraulic line, but that's just based on cosmetics.
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