{"id":2242,"date":"2009-12-30T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2009-12-30T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T06:01:41","slug":"bonding-cut-bicycle-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/bonding-cut-bicycle-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonding Cut Bicycle Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/random_stuff\/IMG_4819.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/89367-2\/IMG_4819.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 title=\"Two pieces of cut bicycle cable. The piece on the left was stuck together with cyanoacrylate glue, the piece on the right was an attempt at soldering with an iron and torch.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After installing a bicycle cable and crimping on an end cap, removing it usually results in a frayed cable which is difficult to remove and reinstall. For maintenance reasons I want to be able to do this, so I&#8217;ve begun looking at methods to seal the end of a cut bicycle cable as is done with factory cuts.<\/p>\n<p>My first experiments with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyanoacrylate\">cyanoacrylate glue<\/a> (aka Super Glue) seem to work well, and when Erik suggested that I solder them, I decided to give that a go. Some research online indicated that a silver-bearing solder works well, so after acquiring some plumbing solder (with silver in it) I gave that a try, and it wouldn&#8217;t wet the surface nor wick into my test cable. Normal lead\/tin solder for electrical work didn&#8217;t work either. I next tried a blowtorch, and while fun it only resulted in ablating the wire resulting in what is seen on the right.<\/p>\n<p>So, right now I think that wetting the ends of the cable with cyanoacrylate glue is the best solution. This is what is shown on the left, and it results in a rigid, solid piece of cable. Disappointingly the cable could be crushed (and promptly frayed) when squeezed with locking the pliers that I use to pretension cables, but this should be acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing a bicycle cable and crimping on an end cap, removing it usually results in a frayed cable which is difficult to remove and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/bonding-cut-bicycle-cables\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bonding Cut Bicycle Cables<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}