Shouldn't that be seen as an excuse to buy the proper tool?

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/crimper.jpg

Holy Canoli!:eek:
That ginormous, medieval looking, hulking, heavy thing of a tool just to put a crimp on a teeny weenie cable cap??!:twitchy::D
.......I suspect that it might not be as big as it looks??

Chombi

It's pretty small, actually:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/Crimper.jpg

The advantage is that when it crimps, it stays crimped. This is useful when making double-ended cables for e.g. obscure three speed shift cables and such.

Thats pretty dang cool

Good point!, as I always considered the best crimps are ones when the only way to take the cap off the cable is to cut it off all together with the section of cable it is crimped on. That awesome crimp tool looks like it it could pretty much "fuse" the cap on the cable end 100% permanently with all the pressure it must produce on the crimp.

Chombi

If we got nine pages out of wheel labels, :o
we ought to be able to get at least ten out of this topic.

I'll go with...personally I don't use 'em, and if I really
want to finish a cable end, I solder it.

I stand before you ready to be flamed.:p

What type of cable housing ferrule is best suited to an Avidd bb7 brake caliper. The caliper already has the rubber boot on it, but is it worth using a ferrule with a nose tube on it, like the ones that jagwire supply?

My problem with the Park cable cutter (and yes I sometimes use it to lightly crimp ferrules on), is that I've had the crimps not be hard enough and the tips fall off. could be the cheap jagwire colored tips I use, but I think they're all more or less the same when it comes to aluminum crimps, no?

This post is never going to get to 10 pages without some lubrication.