Up vote that. Finished cables in that way at the shop, then put the end caps on delicately (CPSC compliant). Those were the MTB heydays and there was a 60% chance a newly, carefully, built bike would be back in a week or two after being heavily used off-road and in need of cable/housing cleaning to return shifting and braking functions. Pop the lightly placed end caps off and the cables strip out of housings and can be fed back through them like butter. Our free first month of service could tolerate easily cleaning things up but not replacing cables and housings.
On mine, after the solder I shape the soldered ends to blunted round end with a fine file for greatest ease of feed into the housings. They won't poke you for blood if you brush against the end either. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:42:10 PM UTC-5, Tom Virgil wrote: > > So I don't like cable ends with ferrules that have nasty looking plier > pinch marks on them. In the old days, I would size the cable, cut it, dip > the end in a solder pot, wait until temperatures equalized, and the cable > ends picked up the solder by capillary action. And leave it at that. No > pinched ferrules and a very clean cable end. > > Anyone as persnickety as me? > > Tom > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
