Originally Posted by
smd4
Not much to understand. They're terrible. They're also ugly as F.
Who cares if they're reusable? Aluminum caps aren't generally reusable, but they only cost (conservatively) $.000000001 a piece, so I'm not really concerned about reusability.
Why not just wrap a rubber band around the cable? Rubber bands are re-usable, and also plentiful!
They may work for you, but you are in the vast, vast minority.
Also--did I mention this?--they're ugly as F.
By reusable I meant the cable, the rubber caps are easy to remove without damaging the cable. A useful thing. Swapped out some shift levers the other day and the cable ends were all nicely together and easy to feed back through the cable housing. Keeps the cable ends from fraying. Keeps from shortening the cable to cut off damage.