Cable end caps?
01-09-12 | 08:47 AM
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Over the past 30 years or so, I've used solder, super glue, heat shrink, and various tapes. The simplest, quickest is the alu cable end cap. Slide it on, crimp,crimp with the diagonal cutters, and done. No fuss no muss.
01-09-12 | 09:37 AM
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old spoke nipples work too I no people weho prefer to soldet the cable ends, crmp with any thing you want you'd really have to sqeeze hard to damage
01-09-12 | 02:30 PM
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I don't crimp the metal ends at all. I use hot glue. The can be removed and put back on with the heat from a lighter or my little butane torch. I don't like the look of crimps that have been squashed with pliers.
01-09-12 | 02:51 PM
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I don't use metal caps anymore. I get 3/32 shrinkable plastic wire insulation tubing from Home Depot, slide an one inch piece to where I'm going to cut the cable, and use a lighter to shrink it on the cable. Then I cut it leaving about 3\4 of an inch of plastic insulation. This way if you ever have to remove the cable, it is not frayed and slides back through housing easily.
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01-09-12 | 03:48 PM
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Don't bother with plastic caps they look cheap and never stay on........that's why you saw them only on department store bikes., they matched their also cheap zip-on type plastic cable clamps.....
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01-09-12 | 06:06 PM
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01-10-12 | 10:44 AM
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01-10-12 | 12:06 PM
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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.
01-10-12 | 01:17 PM
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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.
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01-10-12 | 01:24 PM
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01-10-12 | 01:28 PM
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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?
01-10-12 | 02:12 PM
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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?
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