Originally Posted by
Metaluna
What I don't know is if it matters whether you should do the cut with the housing held straight, or curved into its final position on the bike. The curves I believe would cause all the parallel wires in the housing to shift relative to each other (which is what makes it compressionless) so the ends of the strands might not all lie in the same plane if you cut first then bend. Maybe it doesn't matter.
That's the correct procedure for cutting compressionless shift housing, right? I guess the question is whether or not the parallel wires inside the housing can slide along the length like in shift housing.