One of my personal signatures on my builds are zero end cap crimps - I solder all of the cable ends. This was much easier in the days of non-stainless steel cables and lead solder, but I finally did the research and came up with the correct flux and solder for stainless steel cable. Plus I finally replaced my 70's era soldering iron.
Now I know what to do with that pile of Paul stickers. Laing On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 4:09:39 PM UTC-5 Paul Brodek wrote: > I think I just nuked a reply before sending, if not, my most humble > apologies for the dupe. > > As for custom-ish stuff, I can think of a few. > > 1. Cable End Cap Signature Crimps: BITD LBS wrenches would often develop > signature cable end cap crimps, so you'd know who to holler at if a > build/repair came back with problems. This is the most important use of the > Shimano cable cutting/crimping tool. The key is to not just use the > crimper, you use the cutting jaws to cut/crimp a recognizable pattern into > the cap. Mine is just as many perpendicular cuts as possible; it's pretty > hard to get much than 8 cuts. I always thought of mine as kinda being like > a rattlesnake tail. Usually it's a set pattern of perpendicular cuts, but > some would get fancy with criss-crossed "X"s. > > I flatten the cap a little first with a couple of light squeezes with the > flat inner surface of the Shimano tool, then do the cuts. Sounds like work, > but it gets pretty quick and natural after a few hundred, then very > automatic and 2nd nature after thousands. Spotting a sloppy cap later on > tells me I was working really late on that particular bike, or it gave me a > hard time. Really sloppy caps don't leave the stand---they get redone. I > generally like to leave short-ish cut cables, so more than one redo and I'm > getting into trouble. > > Caps, btw, are the last thing I do. That's my sign that everything's done, > checked and ready to roll. This one in the photo just got 7 cuts. Shoulda > been 8, but I'll let 6-7 slide. > > [image: 50960009647_04aa3d91d7_w.jpg] > > > > Paul Brodek > Hillsdale, NJ USA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bd9412b8-d515-40f6-a7ee-070d1bb4c811n%40googlegroups.com.
