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Brake cable fraying - morrisminor - 18-02-2018
Hi
What is available to stop the end of the brake cable from fraying ?
Thanks everyone
RE: Brake cable fraying - Peter Clayton - 18-02-2018
(18-02-2018, 08:38 PM)morrisminor Wrote: Hi
What is available to stop the end of the brake cable from fraying ?
Thanks everyone
Several options , whipp with copper wire, crimp with copper tube/ hydraulic brake pipe. or possibly shrink sleeving.
RE: Brake cable fraying - Steve Jones - 18-02-2018
Doesn't happen very often but when it does, I've used shrink sleeve successfully.
Steve
RE: Brake cable fraying - Tony Press - 18-02-2018
(18-02-2018, 08:38 PM)morrisminor Wrote: Hi
What is available to stop the end of the brake cable from fraying ?
Thanks everyone
The forked end and the ball socket end fitted on the cable ?
Cheers, Tony.
RE: Brake cable fraying - squeak - 19-02-2018
(18-02-2018, 10:51 PM)Tony Press Wrote:The cables now sold in the UK are adjustable at the forked end Tony, with the cable end exiting through an escape hole and secured by a pinch bolt. A dob of solder at the fraying end can save pricked fingers.(18-02-2018, 08:38 PM)morrisminor Wrote: Hi
What is available to stop the end of the brake cable from fraying ?
Thanks everyone
The forked end and the ball socket end fitted on the cable ?
Cheers, Tony.
Never store your spare coiled up brake cables under the passenger seat, ask me how I know this !! cheers Russell
RE: Brake cable fraying - Andy Bennett - 19-02-2018
Having had problems with an old cable fraying back into the pinch bolt, making adjustment almost impossible and I assumed making the cable dangerous to assume it was pinching, I soldered the end of the new one, which also had about a foot of extra length anyway and all seems good and was v easy to do (on a new cable anyway). I was tempted to touch it with MIG but the solder is neater I think and there is no strength required.
Andy B
RE: Brake cable fraying - Dave Wortley - 19-02-2018
Black nylon cable tie works ok.
RE: Brake cable fraying - Geoff Halstead - 19-02-2018
(19-02-2018, 12:32 AM)squeak Wrote:Be a devil Russell, Dont keep is in suspense.(18-02-2018, 10:51 PM)Tony Press Wrote:The cables now sold in the UK are adjustable at the forked end Tony, with the cable end exiting through an escape hole and secured by a pinch bolt. A dob of solder at the fraying end can save pricked fingers.(18-02-2018, 08:38 PM)morrisminor Wrote: Hi
What is available to stop the end of the brake cable from fraying ?
Thanks everyone
The forked end and the ball socket end fitted on the cable ?
Cheers, Tony.
Never store your spare coiled up brake cables under the passenger seat, ask me how I know this !! cheers Russell
Geoff - Norhing to add.
RE: Brake cable fraying - squeak - 19-02-2018
Geoff, i'm sure your imagination can paint a sufficiently lurid picture. To give it something to work on, lets say the cable welds itself to the terminals and I instantly stop a fire with my bare hands. My NEW front cable MAY still be OK as a rear, I must look now you have made me think. cheers Russell