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Brake cable fraying
#1
Hi
What is available to stop the end of the brake cable from fraying ?
Thanks everyone
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#2
(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.
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#3
Doesn't happen very often but when it does, I've used shrink sleeve successfully.

Steve
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#4
(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.
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(18-02-2018, 10:51 PM)Tony Press Wrote:
(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.
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.
Never store your spare coiled up brake cables under the passenger seat, ask me how I know this !!   cheers  Russell
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#6
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
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!
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#7
Black nylon cable tie works ok.
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#8
(19-02-2018, 12:32 AM)squeak Wrote:
(18-02-2018, 10:51 PM)Tony Press Wrote:
(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.
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.
Never store your spare coiled up brake cables under the passenger seat, ask me how I know this !!   cheers  Russell
Be a devil Russell, Dont keep is in suspense.

Geoff - Norhing to add.
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#9
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
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