Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart

Another rant: I've learned to dislike set screw secured cable clamping. Knarps and"cool/fancy" straddle cable pull up yokes included. The set screws indent the cable and often split apart the cable's wound form. Both serve to make reusing these cables a lot harder and cause damage.


Is this damage a real life safety problem? Generally no as long as the cable's clamping is done only once, or any future clamping is done on the cable head to now indented set screw clamping "fossils" portion. As in shortening the inner cable's length. If the cable was to be lengthened the previously clamped spot will now be in the load path of that cable, not good.


Most pull up yokes' cable anchor bolts have a wrench fitting on the bolt's head and, thus, could be held from rotating with a wrenh while the nut is tightened. Often enough the bolt will still slightly rotate off center but this is usually easy to reverse by turning that bolt's head while holding the yoke and stopping when the cable points directly up.. Andy